Gloria Wong-Padoongpatt is an assistant professor at the University of Las Vegas, Nevada. She is a trained social psychologist whose research focuses on mental health issues among marginalized individuals. Her primary line of research examines the stressful impact of everyday racism, also known as microaggressions. Wong-Padoongpatt investigates the impact, mechanisms, and individual variations in stress responses to these everyday slights and denigrations. Wong-Padoongpatt's research has been published in the Journal of Counseling Psychology, Race and Social Problems, the Asian American Journal of Psychology, Frontiers in Public Health, among others. Wong-Padoongpatt also serves as the communication officer for the Asian American Psychological Association.