Lab Director
Graduate Students
Gabriel Zita Araujo
Alicia Avitia
Research Assistants
Symone Parent
McKenna Varlack
James Eshleman
Maab Shogar
Collaborators
Russ Espinoza, PhD
Recent Undergraduate Research Assistants
Kiley Gilbert
Kiley received the MA in social psychology from University of Minnesota. Kiley is interested in how race biases influence decision making in legal contexts. She is also interested in the effects of exoneration on subsequent perceptions of exonerees. She was a 2017-2018 and 2018-2019 UCARE recipient and the research focused on the issue of cultural inertia and the meaning for patriotism attitudes and threat perceptions. She was a 2018 McNair Scholar. During the McNair program, she examined the issue of perceptions of exonerees, based on race and socio-economic status.
Daniel Nguyen
Daniel is in the clinical psychology graduate program at University of Illinois. He is interested in the way identity influences people of color in the LGBTQA community. He is currently conducting research on the importance of an integrated identity for wellbeing. Daniel was a McNair scholar in 2021.
Kendra Quiroz
Kendra is in the teaching, learning, and teacher education graduate program at UNL. She has interests in Latinx studies and psychology, and has worked on a bias scale that identifies race bias against Mexican Americans. Kendra received a UCARE award for 2019-2020 and for 2020-2021.
Past Graduate Student Lab Members
| Scott Freng, PhD | Scott is a professor of practice at University of Wyoming. |
| Lisa Harrison, PhD | Lisa is a professor at California State University, Sacramento. |
| Russ Espinoza, PhD | Russ is a professor at California State University, Fullerton. He and Dr. Willis Esqueda continue to collaborate on research related to Latinx issues, and particulary Latinx defendants and legal outcomes. |
| Leslie Martinez, PhD | Leslie received the PhD in December 2015. She is a faculty member at University of the Incarnate Word in San Antonio, Texas. |