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K.L. Long, MLS MA is a scholar activist, doctoral candidate, and instructor of record  in the Department of Sociology at the University of Georgia. She regularly teaches departmental courses on Colorism & Hairism in Communities of Color (SOCI (AFAM) (WMST) 3650) and Qualitative Research Methods (SOCI 3590). Her research interests include skin tone discrimination/colorism, intra-racial trauma, public sociology, race and ethnicity, race and health, social psychology, theory, & qualitative methodology. Her research assesses the psychological and physiological impact of intra-racial skin tone discrimination on Black Americans, theories on colorism, the transmission of intergenerational and cultural trauma, and the social psychology of stereotypes, prejudice, and discrimination. Her past research has examined how light-skinned Black women experience intra-group colorism and in her dissertation she lays the foundation for her novel theory rooted in the sociohistorical and social psychological tradtions and quantitatively tests this theory. In her work she asserts that without a proper sociohistorical framework and more complete empirical understanding of skin tone discrimination there will continue to be a loss of valuable knowledge and insight regarding the continued prevalence and impact of colorist trauma on the gamut of Black Americans.