Debbie N. Nguyen (She/They) is a first-year Psychology Ph.D. student in the Social, Decision, and Organizational Sciences area under the mentorship of Dr. Linda Zou. She received a B.A. in Psychology from Chapman University, where she worked in a Human Sexuality lab and studied minority stress and anti-LGBTQ+ attitudes. In the years following her graduation, they spent some time as a Lab Manager at Tufts University studying racial stigma and intraminority attitudes.

Debbie is broadly interested in the realms of racial identity, stereotyping and prejudice, and political behaviors. More specifically, their research interests focus on the following topics:

1. how minority groups compare to one another (e.g., ethnic differences in civic engagement)
2. factors influencing both ingroup and outgroup attitudes (e.g., colorism, endorsement of stereotypes, diversification)
3. how group-specific stereotypes affect perceptions of status and privilege

At the core of her goals is a desire to dispel stereotypes, decolonize and diversify research, and find solutions to social issues with an intersectional approach.