Jennifer G. Andrews

Jennifer Gray Andrews, PhD, has been a professor of psychology in higher education for over 15 years and is currently an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia. She earned her PhD and second Master's degree in Psychology from Emory University, where she studied personality and clinical psychology under the supervision of Marshall Duke, PhD. Her first Master’s degree in the History of Art from University College London, as well as her dual majors in English and Art History as an undergraduate at Emory University, also influence her writing and research.

Dr. Andrews’s research has historically focused on the psychology of art as well as narrative psychology, with a more recent foray into ecopsychology, specifically the mental health applications of interacting with birds. Her recent publication, Birding Benefits: A Review of Mental Health, Cognitive, Social, and Conservation Impacts (Ecopsychology, 2025), represents one of the first comprehensive psychological analyses of birding’s myriad benefits. To date, she and her team of research assistants at Morehouse College have carried out multiple research studies in the area of birding and mental health and have presented their data at multiple conferences including those hosted by the American Psychological Association, the Association for Psychological Science, the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues, the Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minoritized Scientists, and, most recently, the Association for Field Ornithologists and the Wilson Ornithological Society. She has supervised fellows for the Environmental Justice and Sustainability Program as well as the McNair Scholars Program and has served as a reviewer for a multitude of academic journals, including Ecopsychology and The Journal of Black Psychology. Dr. Andrews also routinely volunteers for BirdsGA and participates regularly in field-based ornithological and citizen-science initiatives, including bird banding and rehabilitation for injured wild birds.