Kirsten A. Gonzalez, Ph.D. [she/her/hers] is an Assistant Professor of Counseling Psychology at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville (UTK) and the director of the Research on Social Intersections at Tennessee (ReSIsT) Lab. She also serves as a core faculty member of the Women, Gender, and Sexuality studies (WGS) program, and the Latin American and Caribbean studies (LACS) program at UTK. She is a licensed psychologist in the state of Tennessee and teaches courses in Introduction to Counseling Psychology, Cognitive Assessment, Field Placement, and Multicultural Psychology. Her research interests include the psychological well-being of LGBTQ+ People of Color, the intersection of Latinx and LGBTQ+ identities, belonging and community connection for LGBTQ people broadly and bisexual and transgender folks specifically, ally development, social justice advocacy and interventions, biracial/multiracial experience, intersectionality, minority, race-related, and acculturative stress, and sociopolitical experiences of marginalization across race/ethnicity, gender identity, and sexual orientation.
