Erika Tai

Erika Tai, MPP is a second-year doctoral student on the higher education track of the Social Justice Education program at UMass Amherst. Erika's previous work for her Master of Public Policy degree and Graduate Certificate in Advanced Feminist Studies examined the effects of transnational and transracial adoption on undergraduate adoptees' notions of kinship, identity, and belonging. Her current research focuses on the impact of intergroup dialogue on undergraduate students' understandings of social identities.