Ashley Jimenez Fraser, PhD
Researcher
Dr. Ashley Jimenez Fraser is a multiracial first-generation researcher and professor studying the development of racial bias, empathy, compassion and hope. She studied at Brigham Young University and Arizona State University. Dr. Fraser's research primarily aims to explore and promote positive development across the life course, especially within challenging environments. Her work focuses on understanding how individual, family, and societal factors interact to shape hope, resilience, empathy, prosocial behaviors, and actions that foster equity and anti-racism in children and families. She is also an avid reader, dancer, hiker and mother to four children.
Dr. Fraser believes research findings should more accessible to the very people if effects. The purpose of this website is to bridge the gap between the worlds of research and reality in her work.
