Enrica Bridgewater received her B.S. in Psychology from Brooklyn College CUNY in 2018. She is currently a Communication and Media and Psychology PhD student at the University of Michigan. Her research interests are centered on media representations of minoritized groups as well as the media's role in shaping identity development and psychological well-being across the lifespan, and Hollywood as a cultural institution. When not in PhD land, Enrica enjoys musical theatre and may or may not have listened to the Hamilton soundtrack a million times (spoiler: she has). She also launched a blog in July 2020 called A First-Gen's Guide to Grad School: How to Get in, Survive, and Thrive to help other first-gen students on their journey to graduate school.