Email: ec3720@nyu.edu
Year Entered Program: 2020
Research Interests: education interventions, racial equity in education, racial learning
Principal Advisor(s): Dr. Diane Hughes
Research Description/Bio:
Blair Cox (she/her) is a PhD candidate in the Psychology and Social Intervention program in Applied Psychology at NYU Steinhardt. She is interested in community-partnered, strengths-based, rigorous research exploring setting-level interventions to promote racial equity. Blair's research explores 1) school-based interventions aimed to reduce racial disparities in education, 2) ways to encourage structural attributions for inequality, and 3) ways to engage white youth in resistance efforts towards greater equity. She graduated with a B.A. in Psychology from Gettysburg College in 2018.