Passion for diversity, inclusion, and researching the future in
representation.

Esther González is a PhD Candidate at the Price School of Public Policy at the University of Southern California. Esther is also a Research Associate with the Civic Leadership Education and Research (CLEAR) Initiative and serves as Diversity Chair of the Price PhD Student Association (PPSA). Her research domains are organization behavior, representative bureaucracy, and diversity management. Her research is multidisciplinary and applies methods and theories at the intersection of public administration and management science. Her dissertation is a series of three papers. In the first, she applies Conservation of Resources (COR) and Job Demands Resource (JD-R) theories to better understand the relationship between perceived fairness and burnout in the workplace, particularly for marginalized identities. In the second, she conducts an ethnography of diversity executives in local government organizations to understand how they experience tokenization and signaling within their roles. In the last, she studies how different information sharing methods are related with employees’ emotional experiences. Esther has been awarded an endowed fellowship for her fifth-year studies through the Oakley Endowed Fellowship, and she was recently awarded the 2024 APPAM Student Equity Fellowship.

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