Rhea Maladkar

Master's Student & Project Associate

Rhea is a second-year graduate student in the Industrial/Organizational Psychology master’s program at Middle Tennessee State University. She is a Senior Project Associate for the Center of Organizational and Human Resource Effectiveness (COHRE). She is currently leading a job task analysis study to redesign the Tennessee Basic Law Enforcement Training Curriculum. 

Prior to COHRE, she worked as a student administrative assistant at Wilkins Miller Accounting & Financial Advisory Firm. Rhea also worked as a clerk at Lee & Hughes, LLC, Attorneys at Law. She gained valuable professional skills in these roles.  

Rhea is a recent graduate from the University of South Alabama where she graduated Magna Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology with minors in Industrial/Organizational Psychology and Marketing. During her undergraduate program, Rhea worked with a doctoral student who was researching a biomarker for depression. She also completed a directed study in IO Psychology where she studied the prominence of gender stereotypes in leadership. Rhea was a member of Phi Mu fraternity where she served as philanthropy chair and T-Shirt chair. These roles allowed her to develop her leadership and organizational skills. 

Rhea plans on working in consulting post-graduation and hopes to own her own company in the future.  

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