Background

Catrina Palmer Johnson is a doctoral candidate in the Management and Global Business department at Rutgers Business School – Newark and New Brunswick. She is majoring in Organizational Behavior and pursuing a minor in Social Psychology. Her research focuses on how gender and racial disparity affect mentorship relationships in the academy, as well as how criminal history affects job-searchers’ self-presentation. Johnson has taught introductory management and guest lectured two diversity courses: women leading in business and managing diversity. Before entering academia, she served as an academic advisor at a midwestern university and a research associate at a consulting firm.