Ph.D. Candidate; Communication and Media and Developmental Psychology
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About
Enrica Bridgewater received her B.S. in Psychology from Brooklyn College CUNY in 2018 and her M.S. in Psychology from the University of Michigan in 2023. Most of her undergraduate research focused on minority youth development and culminated in an honors thesis that examined the associations between age, self-esteem, and emotion regulation in middle and high school students.
Her current research interests are centered on representations of ethnically/racially minoritized groups in entertainment media and how media influence behavioral and psychological outcomes (e.g., identity development, stereotype endorsement) for people of color across the lifespan.
When not in PhD land, Enrica enjoys musical theatre and may or may not have listened to the Hamilton soundtrack a million times (spoiler: she has). She also launched a blog in July 2020 called A First-Gen's Guide to Grad School: How to Get in, Survive, and Thrive to help other first-generation students on their journey to and through graduate school.
