Dr. Toni Schmader holds the Canada Research Chair in Social Psychology at the University of British Columbia and is the Director of the Engendering Success in STEM Consortium. She has served as an Associate Editor at the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. Her research examines the interplay between self and social identity, particularly when one’s social identity is accord lower status or is targeted by negative stereotypes. In exploring these issues, her research draws upon and extends existing work on implicit gender bias, bias mitigating interventions, social stigma, social justice, social cognition, intergroup emotion, self-esteem, and motivation and performance