Michelle Nario-Redmond is a Professor of Psychology and Biomedical Humanities specializing in stereotyping, prejudice, and disability studies. As a Ford Fellow, she graduated from the University of Kansas with a Ph.D. in social psychology. Her research focuses on access to higher education, group identification, wellness and political advocacy; and strategies for social change. Some of her work is published in Basic and Applied Psychology, British Journal of Social Psychology, Emerging Adulthood, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Perspectives on Psychological Science, Rehabilitation Psychology, Self and Identity, Social Cognition, and the Journal of Social Issues. She has contributed chapters to Wiley-Blackwell’s Handbook of Positive Psychological Interventions, Oxford’s Disability: Social Psychological Perspectives, and AHEAD’s Disabled Faculty and Staff in a Disabling Society. In 2019, she published her first book: Ableism: The Causes and Consequences of Disability Prejudice for the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues and delivered a Congressional Seminar on Capitol Hill. A graduate of APA’s Leadership Institute for Women in Psychology, she currently serves as Chair of Hiram College’s Diversity Committee, and is passionate about reducing disparities in health, representation, and access to justice. In collaboration with her daughter, Ceara, she created a school-based intervention to raise awareness of disability culture as a valued aspect of human diversity. Her favorite courses to teach include Who is Normal: Freak, Gimp, Crazy, Crip, Gimpy Geezers. Representations of Ableism and Ageism.
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