As an Associate Professor of Counseling Psychology at the University of Maryland, I bring my passion and commitment to social justice and equity to my research, teaching, training, mentoring, and service. My scholarship is focused on intersectional discrimination, gendered racism, Black women’s health, radical healing, and resistance. I also engage in scholar-activism by working to dismantle interlocking systems of oppression both inside and outside of academia. I have served in various leadership roles within SCP, such as current Vice President for Education and Training, Member of past President Helen Neville’s Justice and Joy Initiative, Member of past President Amy Reynolds’ Everyday Reparations Working Group, and Member of the STG on Social Justice Advocacy Competencies. I have also served in other divisions, such as Past-President of Division 35-Section I: Psychology of Black Women. I am also current Chair of the Committee on Women in Psychology.
As SCP Council Representative, I can bring my social justice-oriented leadership skills, my commitment to SCP values, and my advocacy for liberation, justice, and healing to envision a better world for APA. As a Black feminist counseling psychologist, I plan to apply my expertise in Black psychology, intersectionality, and radical healing, to help uproot anti-Black racism in SCP and APA.
I will work collaboratively to advocate for our SCP values on the Council floor, support writing policy statements and resolutions that promote our SCP values, and ensure that we uphold our ethical responsibility as psychologists, particularly in this current sociopolitical moment. In these turbulent times, it is necessary to speak truth to power, and I look forward to using my voice to advocate for justice, equity, healing, and liberation.
As an Associate Professor of Counseling Psychology at the University of Maryland, I bring my passion and commitment to social justice and equity to my research, teaching, training, mentoring, and service. My scholarship is focused on intersectional discrimination, gendered racism, Black women’s health, radical healing, and resistance. I also engage in scholar-activism by working to dismantle interlocking systems of oppression both inside and outside of academia. I have served in various leadership roles within SCP, such as current Vice President for Education and Training, Member of past President Helen Neville’s Justice and Joy Initiative, Member of past President Amy Reynolds’ Everyday Reparations Working Group, and Member of the STG on Social Justice Advocacy Competencies. I have also served in other divisions, such as Past-President of Division 35-Section I: Psychology of Black Women. I am also current Chair of the Committee on Women in Psychology.