My name is Dr. Mackey

      I am an Assistant Professor of Organizational Behaviour at the Desautels Faculty of Management at McGill University. I joined the faculty in 2023 after completing the University of California President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship at UC San Diego’s Rady School of Management, and I earned my PhD from Harvard University.

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I study how organizations hire new workers with an emphasis on racial, gender, and class inequality and their intersections. My work investigates how decision-makers decide who has competence and merit, and the role supply-side characteristics play in shaping employment decisions. I have used ethnographic and qualitative methods, administrative records, and original field experiments to examine the consequences of these evaluative processes.

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An educator at heart, I've been nominated for teaching awards and consulted and trained thousands of employees across various industries. As a DiSC-certified trainer, I specialize in building organizational capacity by developing leaders and staff.

 

Before earning my PhD, I was a member of Improv Boston’s National Touring Company and co-founded the Massachusetts Black Doctoral Society. I'm a New Orleans native, and I earned my degree in English and Secondary Education from the University of New Orleans.