April 2023 – Lisa Rosenthal, PhD – Grappling with Intersectional Praxis

April Salon - Lisa Rosenthal
March 8, 2023

Salon Topic:
Grappling with Intersectional Praxis

Salon Guests:
Lisa Rosenthal, PhD
Assistant Professor of Epidemiology
Pace University Psychology Department, NYC

Salon Description:
I’d like to share and discuss with you all questions I have been thinking about a lot lately in relation to how to truly engage in intersectional praxis in the field of psychology, as well as in science and academia more broadly: What is the impact of capitalism and our lack of attention to and critique of capitalism in psychology, science, and academia? (How) can the field of psychology contribute to liberation? What is my role and impact as a white cishetero woman doing intersectional work particularly that focuses on and centers the experiences of BIPOC? (How) can we practice truly radical, revolutionary intersectionality within neoliberal, white supremacist, anti-Black, colonizing, capitalist, cisheteropatriarchal institutions?

Guest Bio:
Dr. Lisa Rosenthal was born in East Flatbush, Brooklyn, grew up in Flushing, Queens, lived for 7 years in Harlem, Manhattan, and now lives in Jamaica, Queens. She earned her BA in Psychology in 2006 from Queens College, of the City University of New York, and her PhD in Social and Health Psychology in 2011 from Stony Brook University, of the State University of New York. She then completed a 2-year Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Public Health at Yale University. She's currently an associate professor of psychology at Pace University’s New York City campus. Her work has focused on the roles of intersecting forms of stigma and discrimination in health disparities, how to incorporate intersectionality into the field of psychology, and intergroup attitudes and relations.