Assistant Professor Monika Hudson successfully blends professional experience in the public sector with deep community involvement, teaching and research. She brings to life USF's commitment to provide students with challenging academic programs, preparing them to activate positive change in the workplace and in society. Her fields of expertise include entrepreneurship, organizational behavior, management and all aspects of public administration. Professor Hudson's development as a teacher and researcher build on her background in public service and community development. Working within psychological and psycho-social frameworks, she has (along with two groups of scholars) studied the relationships between identity and health-risk behaviors of adolescents. She extends this work into studies of identity and workplace behaviors, specifically, examinations into the self-limiting behaviors of African-Americans and interplay of ethnic and gender identity in workplace behavior. Her work has led to two co-authored journal articles as well as a book chapter and a monograph.