Dr. Mica Estrada, On The Effects Community and Kindness in Retaining Students of Color in STEM Fields

Dr. Mica Estrada received her Ph.D. (1997) in Social Psychology from Harvard University and now is an Associate Professor in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences and the Institute of Health and Aging at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). Her research program focuses on social influence, including the study of identity, values, forgiveness, well-being, and integrative education. Currently she is engaged in several longitudinal studies, which involve the implementation and assessment of interventions aimed to increase historically underrepresented minority student persistence in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics careers. You can find her at https://profiles.ucsf.edu/mica.estrada and read her blog in Psychology Today at https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/experts/mica-b-estrada-phd