Brandy Edmondson

Brandy Edmondson is a lecturer in organizational behavior at Rice Business. She obtained her Ph.D. in business administration from the Work and Organizations department of the Carlson School of Management (University of Minnesota) after completing her Bachelor of Arts in economics from Spelman College. Her research examines evaluations and decision-making in organizations as it pertains to societal and organizational culture. Brandy’s research spans organizational behavior, human resources and strategy with a particular interest in psychology and sociology. Her main research goals are to use her interdisciplinary training to find novel ways to test for the presence of impediments to career and organizational success, identify the underlying mechanisms that create them, and provide unique insights into corresponding implications for organizational policies.

Brandy is honored to be a past leader of the Sadie Collective executive team and to have completed research through a postdoctoral fellowship at Rice University, a visiting doctoral fellowship at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, The Ph.D. Project, The Ph.D. Excellence Initiative, and the American Economic Association Summer Program.