Wenwen Ni

Dr. H. Wenwen Ni received her PhD in Social Psychology, with a minor in Quantitative Psychology, from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2019. Before arriving at Sonoma State, she spent a year as a Visiting Professor at Palo Alto University. She has undergraduate degrees in Business Administration and Mass Communications from the University of California, Berkeley, as well as a post-baccalaureate degree in Psychology from the University of Washington. Her research examines the experiences of underrepresented groups, including women in leadership roles and college students from low-socioeconomic status backgrounds. She focuses on how social and environmental cues can affect feelings of belonging and identity fit, particularly when members of underrepresented groups are interacting with majority group members.