About Kiana

Kiana has spent the last seven years working with researchers and nonprofits in a wide range of fields to offer writing, editing, and project management services. Her primary area of expertise is academic editing in the social sciences, with a particular focus on racial and gender equity. She holds an MA in Public Policy and an MA in the Social Sciences, both from the University of Chicago. Her research interests center on housing segregation, criminal justice, voting rights, education, and the overlapping of these four policy areas.

Recent Work

 
 

An ally by any other name: Examining the effects of racial minority leaders as allies for advancing racial justice

2024

Article published in Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes

Copyedited

 

Reforming our prosecutorial system is no longer just a proposition—it is an urgent imperative

6/29/23

Op-ed for the Brookings Institution

Co-authored with the Center for Justice Research

 

Challenging racism as a Black police officer: An emergent theory of employee anti-racism

2023

Article published in the Journal of Applied Psychology

Copyedited

 

Preparing for the 2022 Midterm Election—Polling Place Reductions and Voter Access

11/7/22

Blog post

Co-authored for the Chicago Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights

 
 

“Am I Next?” The Spillover Effects of Mega-Threats on Avoidant Behaviors at Work

2022

Article published in the Academy of Management Journal

Copyedited

 

Preventing gun violence takes more than police

3/31/22

Op-ed for the Brookings Institution

Line edit completed for the Center for Justice Research

 
 
 

Equity incentives and conforming tax avoidance

2021

Article published in Contemporary Accounting Research

Copyedited