About:

Dr. Tamara Buckley, is a Tenured Associate Professor of Psychology and Counseling at The Graduate Center and Hunter College, City University of New York. In the broadest sense her research focuses on race and social justice. She seeks to build knowledge about how social identity and oppressive structures interact to produce disparities in education, health, and workplace. Buckley’s co-authored book with Erica Foldy, The Color Bind: Talking (and not Talking) about Race at Work, Russell Sage Foundation Press (Feb, 2014), is a longitudinal study that examines color blindness and color cognizance among child welfare workers at a state agency: (https://www.russellsage.org/publications/color-bind). Most recently she has given talks and consulted to organizations, including the NYC DOE, that seek to facilitate dialogue across differences, such as race, that are often rendered invisible by colorblind ideologies. She received an Early Career Psychology Award from the American Psychological Association, Division 35, for her dissertation research on black adolescent girls racial and gender identity development and self-esteem and continues to publish on this topic for a variety of journals and edited volumes. Professor Buckley holds a BA from University of California at Berkeley, MA in organizational psychology and Ph.D. in counseling psychology from Columbia University, Teachers College. She was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and a Visiting Scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation (2007-2008).