Brandy Edmondson

Brandy Edmondson is a lecturer in organizational behavior at Rice Business. She obtained her Ph.D. in Business Administration from the Department of Work and Organizations at University of Minnesota’s Carlson School of Management. Her research examines decision-making in organizations as it pertains to race and culture. Edmondson’s dissertation examined the employment outcomes of Black-White biracial individuals compared to those of their monoracial Black and monoracial White counterparts. In her dissertation, she investigated White cultural alignment as a mechanism that may result in better outcomes for monoracial Black and Black-White biracial job applicants. Edmondson considers herself to be an interdisciplinary scholar, as her research spans microeconomics, organizational behavior, human resources, psychology and sociology. Edmondson’s main research goals are to use her interdisciplinary training to find novel ways to test for the presence of discrimination in the workplace, identify the underlying mechanisms that lead to discrimination and provide unique insights into implications for organizational policies aimed at mitigating workplace discrimination.

Edmondson is honored to be an alumna of Spelman College, the Ph.D. Excellence Initiative, the American Economic Association Summer Program and the Ph.D. Project. She spent the final year of her doctoral studies as a visiting fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan School of Management. Edmondson has volunteered with the Sadie Collective to diversify the pipeline to doctoral studies in economics, and she serves on university panels to discuss the importance of diversity in education.

She is very thankful to her research assistant/rescue dog, Leia Bean, although Leia often sleeps during work hours and demands to only be paid in dog treats.