Tayana Rich

Professional Bio

Tayana joined Penn State’s Industrial/Organizational Psychology doctoral program and the WELD lab in 2022. Living in Florida for all of her life, Tayana graduated with her B.S in Psychology from the University of Central Florida in Orlando where she completed her undergraduate thesis researching Racial Identity and coping with microaggressions in emerging adults. Her research interests surround diversity and underrepresented groups’ experience in the workplace and how organizations can improve those experiences. In her leisure, Tayana likes to crochet amigurumi plushies and watch/ read Psychological thrillers and murder mysteries.