For my work as co-chair of the Yale Psychology Department Committee on Diversity and Inclusion, I was selected as a co-winner of the 2021 Jane Olejarczyk Service Award, shared with fellow co-chair Estée Rubien-Thomas.
https://psychology.yale.edu/news/kathryn-graves-and-estee-rubien-thomas-named-co-winners-2021-jane-olejarczyk-service-awardI am currently a co-chair of the Yale Psychology Department Committee on Diversity and Inclusion, which aims to create a diverse and inclusive environment both for our faculty, students, and staff, and for the STEM community more broadly. We meet regularly to discuss how the department can actualize its commitment to diversity (including but not limited to issues of gender, race and ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability, and SES) in its members and culture and through its research, courses, and speakers. On June 30th, 2020, the committee partnered with the Yale Office of Graduate Student Development and Diversity to provide a 3 hour Psychology "boot camp" for over 400 primarily underrepresented minority undergraduate and post-graduate attendees. Video from the event, as well as resources for pursuing a career in psychology, are linked here.
https://drive.google.com/drive/u/1/folders/1gafJs-eZb484AgD4lmKe_idgmULlcpfMOn August 13th, 2020 I was invited to present and lead a discussion on racism to members of the St. Andrew's Church in Newport News Virginia, as part of their "Responding to Racism" series. Video from that talk is below.
On May 30th, 2020, at the height of the COVID-19 Pandemic, I wrote an article on the effect of the virus on the African American community. That article, pulished in Lacuna magazine, is linked below.
https://lacuna.org.uk/equality/covid-coronavirus-pandemic-reminds-america-doesnt-like-black-people/