Tisnue Jean-Baptiste – Graduate Research Assistant & Graduate Lab Manager
Tisnue is a third-year doctoral student at Rice University in the Industrial-Organizational Psychology program. She is interested in studying employee authenticity in the workplace, specifically how barriers to authenticity may influence feelings of loneliness. Furthermore, Tisnue is eager to explore the role of resiliency in authenticity.
“Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They’re what make the instrument stretch, what make you go beyond the norm.” – Cicely Tyson
Grace Sattem – Undergraduate Lab Manager & Research Assistant
Grace is an undergraduate junior from Jones College majoring in Psychology, and minoring in Anthropology and Cinema and Media Studies. Grace is originally from San Antonio, Texas. She is passionate about researching ways to improve employees’ experiences with DEI factors, work recovery methods, and overall mental well-being at work. In her free time, she is choreographing for and dancing with Rice Dance Theater, watching her favorite movies and shows, or spending quality time with friends and family.
“I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.” – Maya Angelou
Elisa S. M. Fattoracci – Graduate Research Assistant
Elisa is a fifth-year Ph.D. student in the Industrial-Organizational Psychology program at Rice University. As a member of the Working Resilience Lab, Elisa is interested in understanding identity-related adversities in the workplace. Some of her ongoing research projects with Dr. King include studying the effects of workplace microaggressions on employee outcomes and understanding the influence of contested and invisible disabilities on the evaluative process. Elisa earned her B.A. in Psychology from U.C. Berkeley and her M.A. in Industrial-Organizational Psychology from Rice University in 2023.
“A good half of the art of living is resilience.” – Alain de Botton
Nick Banerjee – Graduate Research Assistant
Nick is a Ph.D. student in the Industrial/Organizational Psychology program at Rice University. He earned a B.S. with honors in Psychology and a B.A. with honors in Labor and Human Resources from Penn State University. His research interests include work motivation and cultural differences in work. In his free time, he enjoys watching television and movies, creating or listening to music, and traveling.
“The slogan ‘Press On’ has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.” – Calvin Coolidge
Ashlyn Zhang – Research Assistant
Ashlyn is a junior undergraduate student at Rice from Los Angeles, California. She is double-majoring in Sociology and Psychology, with an interest in I-O Psych. Ashlyn is interested in how employees manage and overcome adverse events that may or may not be related to work, and how that effects workplace performance, relationships, and mental health/well-being. In her free time, she enjoys attending concerts, watching movies, being active/exercising (was a member of the Rice Women’s Basketball team for two years), and traveling. She is excited to be a part of the WorKing Resilience Lab!
“It’s your reaction to adversity, not adversity itself that determines how your life’s story will develop.”