Dr. Maya Yampolsky on COVID, racism, yoga and the virtues of a blank Zoom background

Dr. Maya Yampolsky is an Assistant Professor in Psychology at Université Laval. She specializes in social and cultural psychology, with a particular focus in her research on the experience of managing multicultural and intersectional identities. How those identities are related to our broader social relationships and broader social issues – especially systemic racism and how racism enters into our personal lives. We discuss how COVID has exacerbated and illuminated racial inequities, and the rise in racism that began before the pandemic.