Pam is a fifth year Ph.D. student at Indiana University. She was a National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellow, and a former Graduate Scholars Fellow at Indiana University. Her research focuses are on race/ethnicity, immigration, racism, social movements/networks, and intergroup contact. Her dissertation analyzes racial perceptions and workforce diversity opinions. Pam currently works in recruitment and retention consulting for the public sector.
Her most current research utilizes media framing and immigration racialization theories to explore how immigrant protests are framed in newspaper articles (specifically victim, threat, or hero frames). Immigrant social movements depend on media to legitimize and mobilize allies and the general public alike, which is why framing of immigration issues matters. Her other research involves how online racism is perpetuated in digital spaces and extended into racist audiences and real-world racism. She has previous research on how Black Lives Matter participation is predicted by intergroup contact and legal authoritarianism.
Pam received her M.A. in Sociology from Indiana University in 2021, and received her B.A. in Psychology from the University of Nevada, Reno in 2018.
Pam is a first-generation immigrant born in the Philippines. She splits her time between the Chicago area and Las Vegas, NV. She enjoys board games, restaurants and Broadway show, the outdoors (hiking, sightseeing, rock climbing), dogs (especially her rescued goldendoodle King), interior design, reading nonfiction books, enjoying Earth’s beauty, and spending time with friends and family.