Celesti Colds Fechter received her Ph.D. from the New School for Social Research, where she is currently Associate Dean for Academic Services. Dr. Colds Fechter is a psychologist with a background in social cognition with an emphasis on implicit or unconscious associations and subtle forms of biased behavior as measured by the Implicit Association Test (IAT), which demonstrates conscious-unconscious divergence.  Her current research interests include implicit gender and race associations among human resources professionals and self-identification hierarchies among Black American, West African, and Afro-Caribbean women.