Veronica Womack
Lecturer in Psychology
Specialization
Social Psychology
Health Psychology
Research Methods and Statistics
Research Interests
Gendered Racial Identity
Mindfulness
Inclusive Pedagogy
Education
PhD Howard University
MS Howard University
BS Howard University
PSYC 255: Social Psychology
Jones, M., Womack, V.Y., Jeremie-Brink, G., & Dickens, D. (2021). Gendered Racism and Mental Health among Young U.S. Black Women: The Moderating Roles of Gendered Racial Centrality and Identity Shifting. Sex Roles.
Womack V.Y., Wood C.V., House S.C., Quinn S.C., Thomas S.B...Byars-Winston, A. (2020) Culturally aware mentorship: Lasting impacts of a novel intervention on academic administrators and faculty. PLOS ONE 15(8): e0236983
Womack, V. Y., Thakore, B. K., Wood, C. V., Jewett, D. C., Jones, R. F., Ingram, S. L., ... & McGee, R. (2020). The ASPET Mentoring Network: Enhancing Diversity and Inclusion through Career Coaching Groups within a Scientific Society. CBE—Life Sciences Education, 19(3), ar29.
Dickens, D., Womack, V. Y., & Dimes, T. (2019). Managing hypervisibility: An exploration of theory and research on identity shifting strategies in the workplace among Black women. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 113, 153-163.
Womack, V. Y., & Sloan, L. R. (2017). The Association of Mindfulness and Racial Socialization Messages on Approach-Oriented Coping Strategies Among African Americans. Journal of Black Studies, 48(4), 408-426.
In preparation:
Watson-Singleton, N.N., Womack, V.Y., Holder-Dixon, A.R., Black, A.R. (under review). Racism’s (Un)Worthiness Trap: The Mediating Role of Uncompassionate Self-Responding in the Link between Racism and Distress in African Americans.
Womack, V.Y., Cabirou, L., Jeremie-Brink, G. & Dickens, D. (2019). Coping strategies modify gendered racism’s association with anxiety among young Black women. Paper presented at the American Psychological Association Conference: Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues, Chicago, IL.
Womack, V.Y., Seyfried, S., Bicknell-Hentges, L. (2019). The development of a culturally-tailored mindfulness course for students living and working in urban environments: Preliminary findings. Poster presented at Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL.
Dickens, D., Womack, V.Y., Dimes, T. (2019). Intersectionality in the Workplace: “Code Switching” as a Coping Strategy. Paper presented at the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues Conference, San Diego, CA.
Womack, V.Y. (2018). The effect of a mindfulness intervention on coping strategy preferences across stressor types among African Americans. Paper presented at the International Symposium on Contemplative Research, Phoenix, AZ.
Womack, V.Y. Onyango, L.A., Campbell. P.B. McGee R. (2018). Being the Only: Black Women Biomedical Graduate Student Perceptions of Climate and Coping. Poster presented at the Society of Personality and Social Psychology Conference, Atlanta, GA.
Womack, V.Y. Onyango, L.A., Campbell. P.B. McGee R. (2017). Utilizing the ‘Black Feminist Thought’ Framework to Explore Race-Influenced Coping Strategies of Black Women Biomedical Graduate Students. Paper presented at the Society of Qualitative Inquiry in Psychology, New York, NY.