Hannah Birnbaum

Hannah Birnbaum

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Hannah received her PhD from Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. Her research focuses on how to create more diverse and inclusive organizations.

Area of Expertise

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Organizational Behavior

Education

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• Ph D 2022, Kellogg School of Management
• BA 2014, Wesleyan University

Research Interests

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Hannah studies the factors that undermine the success of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives in organizations and investigate solutions that render them more effective.

Selected Publications

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• "Advantaged groups misperceive how allyship will be received", Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, with Desman Wilson, Adam Waytz, 2024
• "Personal harm from the Covid-19 Pandemic Predicts Advocacy for Equality", Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, with A.G. Dittman, N.M. Stephens, E. Reinhart, R.M. Carey, H.R. Markus, 2022
• "A diversity ideology intervention: Multiculturalism reduces the racial achievement gap", Social Psychological and Personality Science, with M.M. Stephens, S.S.M. Townsend, M.G. Hamedani, 2020
• "Mere membership in racially diverse groups reduces conformity", Social Psychological and Personality Science, with S. Gaither, E.P. Apfelbaum, L. Babbitt, S.R. Sommers, 2017