Nilanjana (Buju) Dasgupta is a Professor of Psychology and the Director of the Institute of Diversity Sciences at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She received her Bachelor’s Degree in psychology and neuroscience from Smith College and a PhD in social psychology from Yale University. She is a leader in research on implicit bias. Her work emphasizes the plasticity of implicit bias—identifying the ways in which changes in local situations modify people’s implicit attitudes, beliefs, and behavior. She is passionate about using the science of implicit bias to tackle real world social problems by designing and testing the impacts of psychological interventions both in the lab and also in naturally existing settings. Her research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, and featured in the New York Times, The Atlantic, Boston Globe, National Public Radio, Wired, Slate, Boston Globe, Scientific American Mind, among others. Dasgupta’s work has been recognized by the Hidden Bias Research Prize from the Kapor Center for Social Impact in Silicon Valley, the Application of Personality and Social Psychology Award from the Society for Personality & Social Psychology, and by the UMass Chancellor’s Award for Outstanding Accomplishments in Research and Creative Activity.