Madison Kellier

Selected Work

What the record looks like so far.

Pratt Institute, School of Architecture — accepted to the Urban and Community Planning MS for Fall 2026, Class of 2028.

Press Feature

Intersections at Case Western Reserve, Spring 2026

Symposium poster photographed at the Intersections research fair, Case Western Reserve University, Spring 2026.
Symposium poster, Intersections research fair, Case Western Reserve University, Spring 2026.

At Case Western Reserve University’s Intersections research fair, Spring 2026, Madison’s poster — “The Psychological Costs of the Strong Black Woman Schema: Emotional Suppression, Chronic Stress, and Mental Health Outcomes” — was selected for the university’s press feature on the event, alongside seven other student researchers.

Research threads

  1. 01

    The Strong Black Woman Schema

    How does endorsement of the Superwoman ideal — being seen as unbreakable, self-reliant, and emotionally contained — function as a psychological risk factor for chronic stress, depression, and anxiety in Black women?

  2. 02

    Underdiagnosis of autism in Black men and women

    What do current diagnostic patterns reveal about who is recognised as autistic and who is missed, when the canonical presentations were assembled from a narrow sample?

  3. 03

    Stereotype, constraint, and appropriation

    What do the historical constraints of jezebel and mammy stereotypes show about the categories Black women were permitted, when read against contemporary patterns of appropriation by white women?

Recognition

  • 4× Dean’s List
  • 2× Poetry Slam Winner
  • Case Western press feature, Intersections, Spring 2026

Volunteer experience

  • Hope Lodge — senior living
  • University Hospitals — Rainbow Babies emergency department and Wiseman Cancer Center
  • Cleveland Clinic — emergency department; respiratory and cardiac ICU shadowing

Leadership

  • Vice President

    Real Estate Club

  • Secretary

    Sisterhood (organisation for Black women on campus)

  • Representative

    Black Student Union (representing SOCA)

  • Secretary and DLR Representative for Diversity

    SOCA — Student of Caribbean Ancestry

What follows is graduate school, and the slow turn from research into the practice it was already pointing toward.