Jennifer Richeson

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Jennifer Richeson is an African-American psychologist who studies racial identity and interracial interactions. She currently works at Northwestern University in its psychology and African-American studies departments.[1] She recently won a MacArthur Fellowship, also known as a "genius grant." [2]

Dr. Richeson completed a B.S. in psychology at Brown University and earned her Ph.D. in social psychology at Harvard University. Before arriving at Northwestern, she was a fellow at Stanford University's Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity and was an assistant professor in psychology at Dartmouth College. [3]