Alyssa Tedder-King

Alyssa Tedder-King  is a doctoral student at UNC’s Kenan-Flagler School of Business. She studies gender diversity in the workplace and seeks to understand why and how inequalities persist in organizations. As someone who is passionate about work, she is also interested in the role  work plays in people’s live, specifically seeking to understand individual’s professional identities and engagement with their work.

Alyssa earned her Master of Science in Counseling Psychology from the University of Kansas and has a B.A. in Sociology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Before returning to academia for her PhD, Alyssa was an executive career transition coach in Seattle and a research consultant conducting jury research for legal cases around the U.S.  

Alyssa lives in Durham, NC with her ever-supportive husband and their 8 year old golden retriever, June.