IVAN HERNANDEZ, DOCTORAL CANDIDATE

Graduate Fellow Intern

Northwestern University

Ivan A. Hernandez is a Latinx Ph.D. student in the social psychology program at Northwestern University. He earned his bachelor’s degree in Psychological Science from California State University San Marcos (CSUSM), where he was a recipient of the CSUSM Presidents Outstanding Student Award and the Outstanding Graduating Student Dean’s Award from the College of Humanities, Arts, and Behavioral & Social Sciences. Ivan has served as in intern for the Office of Diversity and Inclusion within The Graduate School at Northwestern and has received the McBride Student Award which recognizes one graduate student across Northwestern University who goes above and beyond in any or all of the areas of diversity, service, and engagement. Ivan also received the Diversity Recruitment Fellow award within the psychology department at Northwestern and currently serves as the Graduate Fellow Intern for the Inclusive STEM Teaching Project at Northwestern. In this role he facilitates virtual learning community discussions as well as the affinity discussion boards online. Ivan has also co-created content for the project’s Facilitator Training. Ivan’s research focuses, broadly, on examining the factors that influence the identities, well-being, motivation, and academic outcomes of students from historically underrepresented racial-ethnic minority groups and lower socioeconomic status backgrounds. Ivan’s research has been published in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.