Malissa Alinor: Just a Diversity Hire?: The Impact of Competency Microaggressions on Workplace Outcomes

Malissa Alinor will present as part of the Carolina Population Center’s 2024-2025 Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series.Dr. Malissa Alinor is a sociologist whose research focuses on how women and people of color experience discrimination, the emotional and behavioral consequences of experiencing discrimination, and how organizational policies shape racial and gender inequality. She is a mixed methodologist with expertise in experimental, qualitative, and quantitative methods.
Dr. Alinor is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Public Policy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She previously held a postdoctoral fellowship at the Stanford VMware Women’s Leadership and Innovation Lab in affiliation with the Stanford Impact Labs- using social science research for the social good. She earned a Ph.D and M.A. in sociology from the University of Georgia and a B.A., summa cum laude, in sociology from the University of Florida.