The Research Team
Nadya Fouad
Nadya A. Fouad is a Distinguished Professor in the doctoral program in counseling psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Her research is in the areas of vocational assessment, vocational interests, and career development. She is interested in how culture and gender affect career development. Fouad is past president of The Society of Counseling Psychology of the American Psychological Association, past chair of Council of Counseling Psychology Training Programs, and past chair of the Board of Educational Affairs of the American Psychological Association. She is editor of The Counseling Psychologist. Fouad earned her Ph.D. in counseling psychology at the University of Minnesota.
Romila Singh
Dr. Romila Singh is an Associate Professor in the Sheldon B. Lubar School of Business. Dr. Singh teaches and conducts research on a variety of topics in organizational behavior and human resource management. In particular, her research focuses on understanding career management issues related to career decision-making, work-life relationships, mentoring, and retention of women and people of color. She is currently engaged in a three year National Science Foundation supported research study with Dr. Nadya Fouad to understand the factors that explain women engineers’ persistence in engineering careers. Dr. Singh’s other research interests include understanding individual differences in job attitudes and personality-situation congruence.
Mary Fitzpatrick
Mary E. Fitzpatrick holds an undergraduate degree in biomedical engineering from the University of Iowa, and a masters degree in electrical engineering from Marquette University. She was an engineer and senior product manager for 15 years at leading technology companies including GE Healthcare and Microsoft. She returned to graduate school to study vocational psychology and issues related to women in technology workplaces. She has published articles in leading career journals, as well as in the Journal of Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering. Most recently, she published an article in the Journal of Career Development on adult bullying in the workplace. In 2011 she was awarded the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee School of Education Outstanding Dissertation Award in Urban Education for her dissertation on women engineers’ attitudes toward sex. She is currently completing her clinical internship at University of Wisconsin-Madison Counseling and Consultation services and will be awarded a doctorate of Educational Psychology in August, 2011.
Jane P. Liu
Jane P. Liu received her bachelors in Psychology and Afro-American Studies and her masters in Community Counseling from Indiana University-Bloomington. Her research interests focus on addressing the needs of socially marginalized and underrepresented groups in career professions, multicultural counseling, and cultural considerations in mental health outcomes. She teaches a Multicultural Practice course in the Department of Education Psychology. Recently, she published a qualitative study examining persistence of women in engineering careers in the Journal of Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering.
Michelle Parisot
Michelle G. Parisot is a third year Educational Psychology doctoral student at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She earned a bachelor’s degree in Experimental Psychology and a master’s degree in Community Counseling with a specialization in children and adolescents. Michelle’s. research interests are in the areas of multicultural counseling, health and educational disparities, and underrepresented populations. She was recently awarded the Yvonne and James Ziemer Fellowship for the 2011-2012 academic year.
Catia Morna Figueiredo
Catia M. Figueiredo is a second year Educational Psychology doctoral student at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She has a bachelor’s degree in Psychology, and a master’s degree in Educational and Developmental Psychology, with a specific focus on positive interventions in communities.. Catia’s research interests include work in identity development, well-being promotion, and vocational psychology. She is interested in the effects of creativity on learning and adjustment processes, as well as contextual approaches to work adjustment.
