Katherine (Katy) DeCelles holds the Secretary of State Professorship of Organizational Effectiveness at the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto, and is the VMware Women’s Leadership Lab Fellow. DeCelles  plans to use her time at CASBS focused on designing effective randomized control interventions that leverage recent advances in technology to help reduce harmful discrimination occurring in the precarious platform labor market and during high-stakes interactions between police and community members. Her research seeks to understand the psychological mechanisms that explain how individuals and organizations grapple with interpersonal and societal conflict, crime, and various forms of inequality. She takes an interdisciplinary approach to social science that uses experimental, archival, video and qualitative methods, and she is known for her research on conflict in extreme contexts such as in prisons, airplanes, protests, and robbery.