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Elo L. K. Reiss is a postdoctoral researcher and currently works as a researcher and lecturer at the Interdisciplinary Institute for Management and Organizational Behavior at WU Vienna and the Department of Organization at Copenhagen Business School. Elo completed their bachelor studies in 2016 at WU with a focus on diversity management and change management. Elo’s bachelor thesis concerned the integration of refugees in the Austrian labor market. Subsequently, Elo studied the Master Business, Language and Culture at Copenhagen Business School deepening the specialization in change and diversity management. In their master thesis, Elo explored the contextual navigation of employees’ homosexual identities in the work environment of the professional service company KPMG where Elo worked in diversity management until 2018. Since March 2019, Elo works at IVM and does research with an intersectional feminist approach on social inequalities in organizations and society. In their dissertation, Elo brought attention to how the interplay of gender and social class origin shapes biographies and class mobility. Furthermore, Elo has served as editorial board member of the Gender, Work, and Organization journal and leads the Queer Feminist Research Network. In their most recent projects, Elo investigates phenomena related to feminist organizing, queer activism, intersectional inequality, vulnerability, and collective forms of resistance in the context of work and society. Elo supervises bachelor and master theses on topics of social inequalities such as racism, sexism, classism, and heterosexism linked to organizations of resistance in contexts of work and society.

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