Featured Speakers
We are pleased to announce our featured speakers for the 2013 Winter Roundtable Conference:
Alvin N. Alvarez, Ph.D.
San Francisco State University
Dr. Alvin Alvarez is the Associate Dean of the College of Health and
Human Services and a Professor of Counseling at San Francisco State University where he trains masters-level students to be college counselors and student affairs practitioners.
Dr. Alvarez completed his counseling psychology degree at the University of Maryland at College Park and his undergraduate work at the University of California at Irvine. His professional interests focus on Asian Americans, racial identity, and the psychological impact of racism.
He is a former President of the Asian American Psychological Association (AAPA) and a recipient of the Early Career Award from AAPA as well as the Tanaka Memorial Dissertation Award from the American Psychological Association. His primary motivation in doing all of this is to do right by his daughters - Sabrina and Sophie - and to honor the sacrifices of his family and mentors. Dr. Alvin N. Alvarez was the receipient the 22nd Annual Janet E. Helms Award for Mentoring and Scholarship.
Patricia M. Arredondo, Ed.D.
University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
Dr. Patricia Arredondo (arredond@uwm.edu) is the newly appointed President of The Chicago School of Professional Psychology. She is currently finishing her accomplished tenure as Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, Interim Dean for the School of Continuing Education and Professor of Counseling Psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She has dedicated her career to addressing cultural competency development that leads to more access to ethical and culturally effective mental health interventions. She enjoys mentoring students and emerging professionals.
Scholarship has been essential to Dr. Arredondo’s identity. She is the author and co-author of five books, 100 plus articles and book chapters, monographs, and counselor training videos and DVDs in English and Spanish. She has also made national and international presentations on social issues affecting women, immigrants and other underrepresented groups. Her most recent publications address ethnic minority women in higher education administration and multicultural competencies in the 21st century. Her forthcoming, co-authored text is Culturally Responsive Counseling with Latinas/os to be released by ACA, spring 2013.
Leadership and volunteerism are also central to Dr. Arredondo’s professional activities. She served as the first Latina/o President in the history of the American Counseling Association (2005-2006). She is a member of APA’s-Society for the Psychological Study of Ethnic Minority Issues, National Latina/o Psychological Association, Association of Multicultural Counseling and Development, and the Latino Professional Network of Boston. In Milwaukee, she is on the Boards for Social Development Commission and Hispanic Professionals of Greater Milwaukee. She also teaches in the Executive Leadership Academy sponsored by American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education and is past chair of the Dissertation Awards Committee for AAHHE.
Among her awards, Dr. Arredondo was recognized as a Living Legend by the American Counseling Association and received an honorary degree by the University of San Diego for her extensive and consistent contributions to the multicultural counseling and psychology literature. She is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association.
Dr. Arredondo received her doctorate in Counseling Psychology from Boston University and master’s in Counseling from Boston College. She also holds a B.S. in Spanish and Journalism from Kent State University. She is a licensed psychologist and bilingual in English/Spanish. She is of Mexican-American heritage. When there is leisure time, she enjoys golf, yoga, reading and time with familia and friends.
Beth Boyd, Ph.D.
University of South Dakota
Nancy Boyd-Franklin, Ph.D.
Rutgers University
Dr. Nancy Boyd-Franklin is a professor in the Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology at Rutgers University.
Dr. Boyd-Franklin has written numerous articles and chapters and five books including: Black Families in Therapy: Understanding the African American Experience and Reaching Out in Family Therapy: Home-based, School, and Community Interventions with Dr. Brenna Bry.
An internationally recognized scholar, Dr. Boyd-Franklin has received a number of prestigious awards. These have included: an Honorary Doctorate from the Phillips Graduate Institute in 2006. In 2001, she received the Drs. Charles and Shirley Thomas Award from Division 45 of the APA. She also received the “Outstanding Contribution to the Field” award from the Association of Black Social Workers in 2001 and the “Distinguished Psychologist of the Year Award” from the Association of Black Psychologists in 1994. In 1995, she was invited by President Bill Clinton to participate in the first White House Conference on AIDS.
Kevin O. Cokley, Ph.D.
University of Texas at Austin
Kevin Cokley, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Counseling Psychology and African and African Diaspora Studies at the University of Texas-Austin. He is also the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Black Psychology.
Dr. Cokley’s research and teaching can be broadly categorized in the area of African American psychology. He has recently been elected to Fellow status in the American Psychological Association for his contributions to ethnic minority psychology and counseling psychology. He was identified among the top 20 contributors to the Journal of Counseling Psychology between 1999-2009, and among the top 10 contributors to multicultural psychology journals between 1994 and 2007.
He is the recipient of the 2009 Charles and Shirley Thomas Award for mentoring ethnic minority students by the Society for the Psychological Study of Ethnic Minority Issues, the 2008 “10 Rising Stars of the Academy” award by Diverse Issues in Higher Education, and the 2007 Association of Black Psychologists’ Scholarship Award.
Michelle Fine,Ph.D.
City University of New York
Michelle Fine is a Distinguished Professor of Social Psychology, Women’s Studies and Urban Education at The Graduate Center of the City University of New York, USA and the founding faculty member of the Public Science Project (PSP). A consortium of researchers, policy makers and community activists PSP produces critical scholarship “to be of use” in social policy debates and organizing movements for educational equity and human rights.
Recent books and policy monographs include Charter Schools and the Corporate Make-Over of Public Education (Teachers College Press, 2012, with Michael Fabricant), Revolutionizing Education: Youth Participatory Action Research in Motion (with Julio Cammarota, Routledge, 2008), Muslim-American Youth (with Selcuk Sirin, New York University Press, 2008), and Working Method: social research and social justice (Routledge, 2004, with Lois Weis). “Changing minds: The impact of college on women in prison,” nationally recognized as the primary empirical basis for the contemporary college in prison movement (2001).
Fine has provided expert testimony in a number of ground breaking legal victories including women’s access to the Citadel Military Academy and in Williams v. California, a class action lawsuit for urban youth-of-color denied adequate education in California. She was the recipient of the 2012 Henry Murray Award from the Society for Personality and Social Psychology of the APA, the 2011 Kurt Lewin Award from the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues, and the 2010 Social Justice and Higher Education Award from the College and Community Fellowship for her work in prison, the first Morton Deutsch Scholarship Award in 2005 and the Carolyn Sherif Award from APA Division 35, Psychology of Women in 2001.
Joseph P. Gone, Ph.D.
University of Michigan
In his interdisciplinary scholarship, cultural-clinical psychologist Joseph P. Gone explores the intersection of “evidence-based practice” and “cultural competence” in mental health services.
As a citizen of the Gros Ventre tribal nation of Montana, he has specifically investigated these issues through collaborative research partnerships in both reservation and urban indigenous communities in the United States and Canada. A graduate of Harvard College and the University of Illinois, Gone has taught in the Department of Psychology (Clinical Area) and the Program in American Culture (Native American Studies) at the University of Michigan for over a decade, where he has published more than 40 articles and chapters addressed to the cultural psychology of indigenous community mental health.
He has received two national awards as an emerging scholar in his fields and was appointed a residential fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University.
Janet E. Helms, Ph.D.
Boston College
William M. Liu, Ph.D.
University of Iowa
Thomas A. Parham, Ph.D.
University of California - Irvine
Thomas A. Parham, Ph.D. is Vice Chancellor, Student Affairs, as well as an adjunct faculty member at the University of California, Irvine. Prior to these positions, he served as Assistant Vice Chancellor for Counseling and Health Services, Counseling Center Director, and Director of the Career and Life Planning Center at UCI. Before returning to UCI in 1985, Dr. Parham held an appointment on the faculty at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.
Dr. Parham grew up in Southern California and received his bachelor’s degree in social ecology from the University of California, Irvine. He completed his master’s degree in counseling psychology at Washington University in St. Louis, and received his Ph.D. in counseling psychology at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. He is licensed to practice psychology in California.
In addition to authoring six books, over thirty-five journal articles and/or book chapters, he has also produced several videos including Counseling African Americans, Youth and Violence, and Innovative Approaches to Counseling African Descent People, available through Mircotraining & Associates, and Working with African American Clients, available through the American Psychological Association.
In consultations, public addresses and television appearances throughout the United States, Dr. Parham has addressed such issues as multicultural counseling, counseling African Americans, cultural competence, educating youth, youth and violence, coping with stress, characteristics of exceptional people, multicultural education, managing a diverse workforce, effective communications, developing effective management and supervisory skills, managing people, conflict resolution, and team building.
His honors and awards include selection as an American Psychological Association Minority Fellow in 1979 through 1982; the 1988 Research/Scholarship Award from the National Association of Black Psychologists; 1989 Research Achievement Award from the American Psychological Association’s Minority Fellowship Program; receipt of the Research Award for Contributions to the Counseling Profession from the Association for Multicultural Counseling and Development in 1991; election to Fellow status of Division 17 (Counseling Psychology) of the American Psychological Association in 1994; the Exemplary Community Service Award from the Orange County, CA Chapter of the N.A.A.C.P; selection to Fellow status in the American Psychological Association’s Society for the Psychological Study of Ethnic Minority Issues (Division 45) in 1997; election to the title of “Distinguished Psychologist” by the Association of Black Psychologists (ABP’s highest honor) in 1998; Irvine’s Lauds and Laurels Award (one of UCI’s most distinguished honors) for staff achievement in 2003; an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from the Phillips Graduate Institute in 2009; and the Janet E. Helms Award for Mentoring and Scholarship in 2010.
Rockey R. Robbins, Ph.D.
University of Oklahoma
Rockey R. Robbins (Cherokee/Choctaw) is an associate professor at the University of Oklahoma, where he teaches Multicultural Counseling, Behavior Disorders and Personality Assessment.
Dr. Robbins has published over 30 articles during his ten year experience as a professor and his research areas include: re-norming psychological instruments for use with American Indians, means of coping for Indian students in boarding schools, needs of therapists who work with Indian clients and studies that focus on American Indian family resiliency.
The area in which he is currently doing most of his research is in American Indian spirituality. He is currently working on articles related to traditional American Indian spirituality as it is related to psychological health, an American Indian spirituality development model and on Christian colonialization. He has also published five programs: Through the Diamond Threshold, Leadership Skills Building with Indian adolescents, an Indian Women's Identity group, Family Therapy with American Indians, and a Prevention Program for Cherokees. He has conducted hundreds of workshops and speaking engagements across the United States and Europe related to American Indian topics.
The area in which he is currently doing most of his research is in American Indian spirituality. He is currently working on articles related to traditional American Indian spirituality as it is related to psychological health, an American Indian spirituality development model and on Christian colonialization. He has also published five programs: Through the Diamond Threshold, Leadership Skills Building with Indian adolescents, an Indian Women's Identity group, Family Therapy with American Indians, and a Prevention Program for Cherokees. He has conducted hundreds of workshops and speaking engagements across the United States and Europe related to American Indian topics.
Lisa B. Spanierman, Ph.D.
McGill University
Derald W. Sue, Ph.D.
Teachers College, Columbia University
Derald Wing Sue is Professor of Psychology and Education in the Department of Counseling and Clinical Psychology at Teachers College, Columbia University.
Dr. Sue served as presidents of the Society for the Psychological Study of Ethnic Minority Issues, the Society of Counseling Psychology, and the Asian American Psychological Association.
Dr. Sue is an Associate Editor of the American Psychologist and continues to be a consulting editor for numerous publications. He is author of over 150 publications, including 15 books. Two of his books, Counseling the Culturally Diverse: Theory and Practice and Overcoming our Racism: The Journey to Liberation (Wiley) are considered classics in the field. His current research focuses on racial, gender, and sexual orientation microaggressions. A national survey identified Derald Wing Sue as “the most influential multicultural scholar in the United States” and his works are among the most frequently cited.
Melba J.T. Vasquez, Ph.D.
Anderson House at Heritage Square, Texas
Dr. Melba Vasquez is a Former President of the American Psychological Association (APA, 2011), and is the first Latina and woman of color of 120 presidencies of APA to serve as in that role. Dr. Vasquez has served in other leadership roles, including a term on the APA Board of Directors, as president of the Texas Psychological Association (TPA), and of Divisions 35 (Society of Psychology of Women) and 17 (Society of Counseling Psychology) of the APA. She is a co-founder of APA Division 45, Society for the Psychological Study of Ethnic Minority Issues, and of the National Multicultural Conference and Summit.
She has published over 70 books, book chapters and journal articles in the areas of ethics, ethnic minority psychology, psychology of women, counseling and psychotherapy, and supervision and training.
She is a Fellow of ten Divisions of the APA, holds the Diplomate of the American Board of Professional Psychology (ABPP) and has received numerous awards for distinguished professional contributions, career service, leadership, advocacy, and mentorship.
She has published over 70 books, book chapters and journal articles in the areas of ethics, ethnic minority psychology, psychology of women, counseling and psychotherapy, and supervision and training.
She is a Fellow of ten Divisions of the APA, holds the Diplomate of the American Board of Professional Psychology (ABPP) and has received numerous awards for distinguished professional contributions, career service, leadership, advocacy, and mentorship.