Rachel Leshin is a postdoctoral research fellow in the Human Diversity Lab. Before coming to Princeton, she received her PhD in social psychology from NYU and her BA in psychology and gender studies from Northwestern. Rachel’s research focuses on the development of social categorization – that is, how children form their representations of the social world, what those representations end up looking like, and what the consequences of these representations are for children’s everyday lives. Currently, Rachel is examining these questions in the domain of gender with a cohort of cisgender and gender-diverse adolescents. Outside of research, Rachel has a love of food, comedy, and long conversations.