Kiara Hernandez
PhD Candidate in Government
Stone PhD Scholar in Inequality and Wealth Concentration
Stone PhD Scholar in Inequality and Wealth Concentration
Kiara Hernandez is a PhD candidate in Government at Harvard University and a James M. and Cathleen D. Stone PhD Scholar in Inequality and Wealth Concentration at the Harvard Kennedy School. Her research interests are in political psychology and political behavior. Within these fields, she is primarily interested in the effects of macro-level economic transformations, economic inequality, and demographic change on identity, intergroup relations, and political attitudes in the U.S. Kiara graduated with a B.A. in International Relations and German from the University of Pennsylvania. Before beginning her PhD, she spent two years as a predoctoral research specialist in the Emerging Scholars in Political Science program at Princeton University, where she contributed to research on public opinion, voter turnout, and racialized campaign messaging in American elections. Her work is supported by the American Political Science Association Minority Fellowship and the Stone PhD Scholar Fellowship.