Serenity S. Lee

I am a doctoral student in the Management Department's Organizational Behavior group at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. I research how employees' evolving professional identities are supported, constrained, and changed by social expectations (e.g., relationships, social hierarchies, organizational norms). In practical terms, I aim to make organizations better at helping workers become who they are meant to be by encouraging, instead of repressing, their growth.

My work has been published in the Academy of Management Journal and the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, as well as for practitioners in Harvard Business Review.

Prior to my doctoral studies, I spent time as a research associate in the Organizational Behavior unit at Harvard Business School and as a conflict resolution facilitator at the University of Michigan. I received my BA with honors in Psychology from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.

In my free time, I enjoy taking art classes, taste-testing oat chai lattes at coffee shops around the city, and catering to the whims of my two cats.