Kelsey Kangos

Brown University

Dr. Kangos is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, and the Director of Insitutional Equity and Diversity at Brown University. In this role, she coordinates outreach to address climate concerns of faculty and graduate students in Brown’s 50+ academic departments. Dr. Kangos also collaborates with key constituents across campus to assist with the development of robust diversity trainings and workshops, as well as assessment tools to evaluate key initiatives supported by the Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan (DIAP). A licensed psychologist, Dr. Kangos has used her skills as a therapist to facilitate over 100 workshops on bias, structural racism, and cultural humility to participants throughout the Brown system. She has created, managed, and participated in initiatives committed to anti-racism, equity, and justice and is deeply committed to the work of justice both personally and professionally. Dr. Kangos holds a Bachelor’s degree from Miami University in psychology. She earned her Master’s from Pace University and her Ph.D. from University at Albany, where her research focused on supervision and psychotherapy processes, cultural humility, representation of excluded groups in academia, and bias in healthcare professionals. Completing her doctoral training, Dr. Kangos matched at Brown for residency in the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, and stayed on for two years of postdoctoral fellowship in diversity research and evaluation.

Areas of Expertise

• Health and Medicine

Methodology

• Focus Groups
• Interviews
• Mixed Methods
• Qualitative Methods
• Quantitative Methods
• Survey Methods
• Questionnaires