Aileen J. Dowden is currently an Industrial Organizational Psychology doctoral student at the University at Albany, SUNY. Having just completed her third year and is done with classes, her next position will be a statistics instructor in the Psychology Department. She researches recruitment and selection of employees for organizations and has more recently been interested in diversity and inclusion best practices for organizations. This research includes understanding potential job candidates social identity and how that influences attraction to organizations and the well-being of maximizing decision makers. The most recent research project looking at how to select and train contact tracers for better support minority communities was especially exciting as it consisted of studying a population that is often neglected. Having been trained in a breadth of organization practices and strategies, past projects have included creating a new performance management system for supervisors in a statewide organization, restructuring trainings for an organization to be more engaging and create a better learning environment, and measure engagement of employees for multiple organizations to provide more direct resources and support. After completing her dissertation, she plans to to consult for organizations on how to properly and fairly select potential employees by reducing biases with decision makers and the system they are using as well as how to better manage current employees to make the job more engaging and meaningful. In her spare time she enjoys completing jigsaw puzzles, spending time with friends (and has become very familiar with using Zoom), and looks forward to reuniting with familiar faces in the near future.