Asia Eaton is a feminist social psychologist and professor in psychology at Florida International University. Her research explores how gender intersects with identities such as race, sexual orientation and class to affect people’s access to and experience with power.
Since 2016, Eaton has also served as head of research for Cyber Civil Rights Initiative (CCRI), which is working to understand and end the epidemic of image-based sexual abuse in the U.S. Her research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, featured in outlets such as The New York Times, Forbes, Science magazine and BBC News, and resulted in invited talks at Meta, Google, the Korean Ministry of Gender Equality and Family, the U.S. Marine Corps and universities around the nation.
Eaton is a fellow of the American Psychological Association in Divisions 9 and 35, and has won national awards for research, teaching/mentoring and leadership/service. She earned a PhD and MA in psychology with a minor in statistics from the University of Chicago. She earned a BS in psychology and a BA in philosophy from Carnegie Mellon University. She also has an MS in clinical mental health counseling from FIU