Vanessa Urquizo is a rising Senior at University of Kentucky and is a double major in Management and Marketing. She is currently a Teacher Assistant for upper-level Management classes and a Marketing Associate of the Genau Group of Realty. She is Vice-President of Community Service in the Omicron Zeta chapter of Sigma Lambda Gamma. She also contributes in the Latinx community as she mentors high school students and has served is various leadership roles in the Latino Student Union. She also served for a year and a half as a full-time missionary in the Dominican Republic.She plans to pursue a PhD in Business Administration and become an educator, but her ultimate goal is to become an inspiration to other Latinx students pursuing Higher-Education.
Alyson Stetyick
Vanessa Urquizo
Horatio Taylor
Horatio Traylor is a rising senior at Louisiana State University from Monroe, Louisiana. He is majoring in Psychology and is currently a member of the Diversity and Employee Well-Being Lab at LSU under the direction of Dr. Rachel Williamson-Smith, researching employee well-being, diversity, personality and individual differences. He is a Discover Undergraduate Research Grant Recipient and is currently conducting an individual research project on women of an ethnic/racial minority. Horatio hopes to attain a doctoral degree in Industrial-Organizational Psychology with broad interests in I/O including diversity, wellbeing, personality, assessment, motivation, morale and decision making.
Maggie Scotto Lavina
Magali Scotto is a senior at the University of Central Florida. She is majoring in Psychology with a declared track in Industrial Organizational Psychology. She is a member of Student Professionals for Industrial Organizational Psychology and the Psychological Society. Magali is currently a research assistant for the Stressful Events and Experiences (SEE) Research Group. The focus of the research group is to better understand how employees react to and process stressful events at work. Magali plans to pursue a master’s degree in Industrial Organizational Psychology and apply her knowledge of psychological principles to solve problems in the workplace and improve employees’ quality of life.
Makai Ruffin
Makai Ruffin is currently a junior at Bowling Green State University. She is majoring with a BA Psychology with a minor in General Business. In addition, she is a member of the Undergraduate Psychology Association. Makai has worked as a research assistant under the field of animal cognition that dealt with the behavioral patterns of homing pigeons. Moreover, Makai has also worked as a research team member looking at the well-being of the unemployed through social media sentiments. Makai is planning to continue her academic career by obtaining a doctoral degree in Industrial-Organizational Psychology with a focus on job performance, selection, or organizational development where she can apply her training in the private sector.