Kecia M. Thomas, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Psychology and African-American Studies at the University of Georgia. As an Industrial Organizational Psychologist, she specializes in understanding the complex dynamics involved in increasingly diverse workplaces. Her research focuses on diversity within the areas of organizational recruitment, leadership, socialization, and career-development. As a practitioner, her work focuses on diversity and the evaluation of organizational initiatives. Much of her work centers on the identification and analysis of the unique organizational realities fa...