Kiara Sanchez is an Assistant Professor and E.E. Just 1907 Early Career Fellow in the Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences at Dartmouth College. Prior to that, she was a Mellon Faculty Postdoctoral Fellow at Dartmouth.

Dr. Sanchez received a PhD in Psychology at Stanford University and a BA in Psychology and Sociology at Rice University.

She is the Principal Investigator of the Social Identity in Dialogue (SID) Lab. The SID Lab explores the dual benefits and challenges of talking about race in diverse settings. We focus on uncovering the psychological and material barriers that hinder substantive dialogue and develop theoretically grounded interventions that help people overcome these barriers.