We are thrilled to name the 2017 recipient of the Janet E. Helms Award for Mentoring and Scholarship - a Roundtable tradition for 27 years. At WRT2017, we will honor Dr. Marie Miville (@MarieMiville) for her influence as a scholar, mentor, and former WRT director! Join us in celebrating her cutting-edge work on multicultural gender roles and promoting wellness amongst marginalized communities. Check out her bio as a Featured Psychologist in the American Psychological Association!

Wesley Lowery (@WesleyLowery) is a journalist at The Washington Pos covering national politics, race, justice and law enforcement. At 25, he was a lead on the Post's "Fatal Force" project that won the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 2016. He was named "Emerging Journalist of the Year" by the National Association of Black Journalists.

DR. JELANI COBB (@jelani9) writes about the enormous complexity of race in America. In 2015, he received the Sidney Hillman Prize for Opinion & Analysis Journalism for his New Yorker columns, in which he combined “the strengths of an on-the-scene reporter, a public intellectual, a teacher, a vivid writer, a subtle moralist, and an accomplished professional historian.” Cobb writes frequently about race, politics, history, and culture. His most recent book is “The Substance of Hope: Barack Obama and the Paradox of Progress.” He’s a professor of journalism at Columbia University. He won the 2015 Sidney Hillman Prize for Opinion and Analysis Journalism, for his columns on race, the police, and injustice.

Dr. Anneliese A. Singh is an Associate Professor of Counseling Psychology and the Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at University of Georgia. Dr. Singh's research interests include multicultural counseling and social justice, transgender resilience and transgender people of color, qualitative methodology with historically marginalized groups (people of color, LGBTQI, immigrants), advocacy to end child sexual abuse in South Asian communities, feminist theory and practice, Asian American counseling and psychology issues, and empowerment interventions with trauma survivors. She has received numerous awards, including the PI Early Career Award from the American Psychological Association.

DR. JANET E. HELMS is the Augustus Long Professor of Counseling Psychology and Director of the Institute for the Study and Promotion of Race and Culture at Boston College. Dr. Helms is a Fellow in Division 17 (Counseling Psychology) and Division 45 (Ethnic Diversity) of the American Psychological Association (APA).

Dr. Helms serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Psychological Assessment and the Journal of Multicultural Counseling and Development. She has written more than 60 empirical and theoretical articles and four books on the topics of racial identity and cultural influences on assessment and counseling practice. Her books include "A Race Is a Nice Thing To Have" and (with Donelda Cook) "Using Race and Culture in Counseling and Psychotherapy: Theory and Process" (MA: Allyn & Bacon).

The work of Dr. Helms has been acknowledged with awards that include an engraved brick in Iowa State University's Plaza of Heroines and the "Distinguished Career Contributions to Research" award from the Society for the Psychological Study of Ethnic Minority Issues. In 1991, she was the first annual recipient of the "Janet E. Helms Award for Mentoring and Scholarship in Professional Psychology." This award was inaugurated in her honor by Columbia University Teachers College.