Carissa Dwiwardani As I prepare for the release of Fall 2020 FOCUS, I am struck by how mixed this season has been and continues to be. While challenges mount, the strengths of our community along with our advocacy for one another, remain firmly rooted despite the shifting ground beneath us. Read more…
shola shodiya-zeumault As a Black American of Nigerian heritage, I was raised to always think of others before myself. In my family, to do the “right” thing was synonymous with making a choice that served my community and honored my family, before all other choices. A large part of my Read more…
Thema Bryant-Davis & Egypt Leithman Pepperdine University In a racist society, it is not enough to be non-racist, we must be anti-racist. ~Angela Davis Historical and contemporary racial trauma, including ancestral wounds and the current-day range of microaggressions and large scale terroristic hate crimes, require healing intervention psychologically, spiritually, and Read more…
Jeffery Scott Mio Since we did not have a face-to-face APA Convention this year, we were not able to hold our “Meet the Past Presidents” program in our hospitality suite. That was the main item on which I was working, although since the APA Convention, I have been working on Read more…
Keoshia Harris Greetings Division 45 Family, Congratulations on completing another semester. If this was your first semester, welcome and congratulations on being one step closer to the completion of your program! Given the current circumstances, completing a program may be a lot more arduous than previously expected. Please make sure Read more…
Alison Cerezo, Jeffery Mio, G. E. Kawika Allen, Nayeli Chavez, Bridgette Peteet, and Brandi Pritchett-Johnson The Antiracism Committee was formed in response to requests from the listserv that Division 45 develop action steps in response to the recent killings of Black people including George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Rayshard Brooks, and Read more…
Congratulations to the newly honored APA Division 45 Fellows! In this column, we are excited to feature each fellow’s work, areas of impact, sources of resilience when facing discouragement, and advice to students and early career professionals. We are grateful to each Fellow for taking the time to share about Read more…
Art Blume President Hello, everyone, my hope is that you and your families remain well. I confess to a great deal of personal trepidation in writing this column, at a time when circumstances seem overwhelming and words are failing me. As I have struggled to write this column, my thoughts Read more…
Alvin N. Alvarez Past President “I’m forced to be an optimist.” ~James Baldwin In a time literally and metaphorically on fire – whether it’s the literal fires burning around the world as Mother Earth cries out in pain, the flames of White supremacy burning ever hotter, or the COVID inferno Read more…
Grace A. Chen, Jioni A. Lewis, Helen A. Neville, Hector Y. Adames, Nayeli Y. Chavez-Dueñas, Bryana H. French, & Della V. Mosley To date, over 200,000 people in the United States (U.S.) have died as a result of complications related to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19). Black, Indigenous, and People of Read more…