Lisa Bowleg, PhD, MA, Professor, Department of Psychology at the George Washington University

Dr. Lisa Bowleg’s interest in HIV research began when she was an undergraduate psychology student at Georgetown University. She credits a Women’s Studies course, in particular, as instrumental to unlocking her interest in intersectionality – an analytical framework that examines how different intersecting social positions (e.g., race, gender, sexual identity, and class) reflect interlocking social-structural privilege and inequality (e.g., racism, sexism, classism, and heterosexism).