Assistant Professor of Psychology at North Carolina State University
About
Dr. Volpe is an applied health psychologist with a focus on the reduction of racial/ethnic health disparities by employing critical psychological and social justice lenses. Her research aims to explicate the processes by which and the contexts in which individuals resist and protect themselves against forms of individual-, cultural- and structural-level marginalization (e.g., racism, sexism, heterosexism), with specific attention to the preservation of health in Black and Latinx communities.
Current Work:
Dr. Volpe is currently working on understanding the ways Black people in the US protect their health when they experience racism at multiple levels - individual, cultural, and institutional. She is currently engaged in understanding the health risks of structural racism online and the ways that Black people find and create community and positive race-affirming spaces online to protect themselves. She is also working on projects that 1) examine state- and neighborhood-level health risk and protective factors, and 2) create local coalitions to address Black community concerns and act for Black liberation.
Research Area Keyword(s):
Racism, racial health disparities, community and individual strengths, participatory, online contexts
