Kiara Hernandez

Kiara Hernandez is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Government at Harvard University and a James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Ph.D. Scholar in the Inequality and Wealth Concentration at the Harvard Kennedy School. She studies American politics with a focus on political behavior and psychology, race and ethnic politics, and American political economy. Her research examines the effects of large-scale social and economic transformations on everyday political life.

Her dissertation investigates how a rapidly diversifying workforce, shifts in the nature of work, and evolving labor market institutions—such as unions—reshape intergroup relations and contact in ways that influence political attitudes, behavior, and inequality.

Kiara graduated with a B.A. in International Relations and German from the University of Pennsylvania. Prior to graduate school, she worked as a predoctoral research specialist in the Emerging Scholars in Political Science program at Princeton University.