Jennifer Eberhardt, PhD, is a social psychologist at Stanford University. Eberhardt has collaborated on and performed multiple studies exploring the outcomes of the psychological link between race and crime.

She received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Cincinnati, as well as a Master of Arts and a Doctorate from Harvard University. From 1995 to 1998, she taught at Yale University in the Departments of Psychology and African and African American Studies. In 1998, Eberhardt joined the faculty at Stanford University where she became a professor in the Department of Psychology and co-director of SPARQ, a university initiative to use social psychological research to address pressing social problems.

Eberhardt has received multiple awards for her work, including but not limited to the National Academy of Education Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship, the Distinguished Alumnae Award at the University of Cincinnati, Dean’s Award for Distinguished Achievements in Teaching at Stanford University, and the MacArthur Fellowship from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.