Gold Okafor is PhD candidate in social and personality psychology at the University of California, Berkeley. She applies emotion research to investigate racial and gender disparities. Her research questions include, “how does the race and gender of an emotional person influence the judgments of the emotional person?” For example, how is an angry Black woman judged differently from an angry White woman, and what are the downstream consequences. Additionally, “how can we accurately measure emotion constructs within marginalized communities?” This is exemplified in Okafor et al., (2023)—the first psychometric validation of the most utilized mindfulness measure within non-clinical Black Americans. Okafor is Ford Predoctoral Fellow and a recipient of an American Psychological Foundation Scholarship. In Spring of 2025, she will begin a postdoctoral position at Yale.
