Kris Orion Shiflet

They/them/theirs || BS & MS of IO Psychology, 2025 || PhD candidate || Illinois Institute of Technology

Professional and Research Interests: Disability Inclusion, Psychometrics and Test Validity for People with Disabilities, Job Crafting, Storytelling as Academic and Technical Writing.

Kris’s Blog

Welcome to my blog where I write whatever I want! Posts can range from serious discussions with proper source citations, to unstructured chats about whatever is interesting to me in the moment.

It’s been a minute…

I last posted in mid-July, I blinked, and suddenly we’re a week into September. Honestly life has just been a whole messy mix of amazing opportunities, good people, and shitty things. I’m busy, stressed, tired, but eager to see where my new opportunities can take me. The Supreme Court decision on Roe v Wade was,…

The many faces of storytelling

I know this might be cliché, but I truly believe many of us are storytellers, even if we never write or orate tales. While we typically think of those in the humanities as society’s storytellers, I believe that scientists are as well. In fact, like historians are, I think scientists are some of our most…

About Me

Hi, my name is Kris! I’m a university student in Chicago studying psychology and statistics at the undergraduate level. When I am not doing school stuff, I love to write, read, play video games, hang out with my friends, and walk the waterfront.


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