PhD Student in Management of Organizations, Berkeley

My name is Kyra Rodriguez and I am a second year PhD student in Management of Organizations at UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business. My research, primarily with Dr. Sa-kiera Hudson and Dr. Laura Kray, focuses broadly on stigma, disability, SDO, and intergroup relations.

Prior to UC Berkeley, I earned my BA in Psychology from New York University. I then went on to a predoctoral research position at MIT's Sloan School of Management where I was involved in research relating to the effects of socioeconomic background in academia and East vs South Asian differences in organizations (the Bamboo Ceiling) with Dr. Anna Stansbury and Dr. Jackson Lu, respectively.

Find my CV here. Email me at kyra_rodriguez@berkeley.edu.

Publications

Levy, A., Rodriguez, K., Phillips, K. W., Leslie, L., Cimpian, A., & Galinsky, A. D. (2025, February 13). Diversity, Risk, and Prospect Theory: When Making the Business Case for Diversity is a Losing Proposition. Retrieved from osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/zfbce_v1

Submitted to Journal of Experimental Social Psychology Preprint.

Stansbury, M. & Rodriguez, K. The Class Gap in Career Progression: Evidence from Academia.

Forthcoming at Econometrica. Working paper.

Aronov, D., Struhl, M. O., Lam, A., Rodriguez, K., & Balcetis, E. (2022). Protecting Cyberhealth: Social Psychological Mechanisms That Accentuate and Mitigate Risky Online Behavior. In Advances in Psychology Research. Volume 148 (Vol. 148, pp. 171-187). Nova Science Publishers, Inc.

Presentations

Rodriguez, K. (2025). Perceptions of Disability & Lying, Negotiation, and Social Identity. HIGHER Lab Presentation, Berkeley, C.A.

Rodriguez, K. (2024). Lay Theories of Disability. HIGHER Lab Presentation, Berkeley, C.A.

Stansbury, A. & Rodriguez, K. (2024). The Class Gap in Career Progression: Evidence from US Academia. Micro Management of Organizations Research Lunch Talk, Berkeley, C.A. Presented by Rodriguez

Stansbury, A. & Rodriguez, K. (2024). The Class Gap in Career Progression: Evidence from US Academia. Contributed talk at the International Conference on Science of Science and Innovation, Washington, D.C.

Stansbury, A. & Rodriguez, K. (2023). The Class Gap in Career Progression: evidence from academia. Panel presentation at the 83rd Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (AOM), Boston, Massachusetts.

Rodriguez, K. (2023). The Class Gap in Career Progression: evidence from academia. Poster presentation at the Pathways to Research and Doctoral Careers (PREDOC) DC Conference, Washington, D.C.

Stansbury, A. & Rodriguez, K. (2023). Leaky pipeline, slippery ladder: Socioeconomic background in academic careers. Panel presentation at the 49th Annual Eastern Economic Association (EEA) Conference, New York, New York.

Rodriguez, K. (2021). Poster presentation at Yale University’s Summer Management and Organizations Research Experience Seminar (S’MORES), New Haven, Connecticut.

Research Experience

HIGHER Lab PhD Student

UC Berkeley, Haas School of Business, Micro Management of Organizations

PI: Dr. Sa-kiera Hudson

Predoctoral Technical Associate (Full-Time)

MIT, Sloan School of Management, Work and Organization Studies

PIs: Dr. Jackson Lu and Dr. Anna Stansbury

Yale Organizational Behavior Research Intern

Yale University, Yale SOM Organizational Behavior Department

PI: Dr. Melissa Ferguson (Psychology)

West Interpersonal Lab Research Assistant

New York University, NYU Psychology Department

PI: Dr. Tessa West

SPAM Lab Research Assistant

New York University, NYU Psychology Department

PI: Dr. Emily Balcetis

August 2024 –

January 2022 – June 2024

June 2021 – August 2021

January 2020 – December 2021

December 2019 – December 2021

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