Anita Blanchard is a professor of Psychology and Organization Science at the University of North Carolina Charlotte. She is the director of the Virtual Identity, Community, and Entitativity lab, which studies online and face-to-face groups. Dr. Blanchard is particularly interested in how groups affect people’s relationships with each other as well as their own health and well-being, and how the groups to which people belong increase organizational and societal functioning. She was a finalist for the 2016 Bank of America Teaching Award.