Division 45 Speakers Bureau

Area of Expertise
Interracial ethnic identity, Sexual harassment training and investigations, Racial discrimination/EEO issues and investigations; Higher education leadership survival for Women of Color, Diversity and Inclusion Training

Fee/ Honorarium requested
Gratis for non-profits. Honoraria for educational institutions

Positionality Statement
Dr. Christine Iijima Hall received her PhD in Social Psychology from UCLA. She is regarded as one of the pioneer researchers on multiracial ethnic identity due to her dissertation being one of the first large studies in the United States on biracial/multiracial ethnic identity. Dr. Hall is also well-known for conducting training and education on the importance of diversity in the workplace at a time when diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) training was not common in the U.S. lexicon. Dr. Hall has authored of numerous books chapters and journal articles on multiracial identity, ethnic women and body image. Her 1997 American Psychologist article, “Cultural Malpractice: The growing obsolescence of psychology with the changing U.S. population” on the need for psychology to diversify its profession in teaching, research and practice is still widely referenced. Dr. Hall has been, and continues to be, interviewed on television, radio and in magazines on topics of diversity, multiracial identity, body image, women in leadership and the importance of mentoring and coaching.

Area of Expertise
Psychologists in university administration Leadership roles for psychologists

Area of Expertise
Health prevention and promotion, HIV, substance abuse, community interventions, program evaluation research, and strategic planning and policy development in various types of communities and organizations locally and nationally.

Area of Expertise
art therapy, Filipinx community/colonization and it’s impact, marketing/branding for therapists, switching careers

Fee/ Honorarium requested
$200-500; negotiable

Area of Expertise
“DSM-5-TR Outline for Cultural Formulation and Cultural Formulation Interview: Tools for Culturally/Structurally Competent Care” ; “Personal Transformations Through an Encounter with Death: A Study of Akira Kurosawa’s Ikiru” ;“The Night Sea Journey of the Film Titanic”; “Field of Dreams: Playing with the Father Archetype”

Fee/ Honorarium requested
Negotiable

Positionality Statement
Elisha-Rio P. Apilado, MA, ATR-P is an artist, dancer, and art therapist from Chicago, Illinois. She worked in advertising/art direction for 10 years before switching careers to art therapy. Recently graduated from Adler University, Elisha is currently a therapist fellow at Empower Family Therapy. She is on a mission to advocate the importance of expressive arts therapy and how it can be utilized to break the stigma surrounding mental health, specifically within the Filipino/a/x community. Her focus is on using the arts to open up communication about colorism and the long-term effects of colonialism.

Area of Expertise
Cross-cultural Psychopathology and Cross-Cultural Psychotherapy; Asian American and Chinese Psychology; Career and Work Psychology; Diversity and Adaptability

Positionality Statement
I am a 65 year old retired, liberal, straight, and middle-class professor from the Midwest with preferred pronouns of he/him. I am a first generation Chinese American who immigrated to the United States from Malaysia for a college education. I am married to a European American classmate from college and have two adult Amerasian children. Since becoming an Asian American psychologist in 1988, I have devoted my career to promoting diversity science in Psychology.

Area of Expertise
Cultural adaptations of psychotherapy; Intergenerational trauma among Japanese Americans; Navigating the tenure-track in academia, Becoming involved in APA governance; Local and national advocacy, Participating in non-profit agencies, Writing a textbook; Work-life balance

Fee/ Honorarium requested
Sliding scale

Area of Expertise
Teaching of Multicultural Psychology; Development of allies; How metaphors are used in political persuasion; Metaphor and humor

Fee/ Honorarium requested
Gratis

Area of Expertise
Community Psychology – Definition and Evolution; The beginnings of the Society for the Psychological Study of Culture and Ethnicity, Division 45 of the American Psychological Association; lessons from my years in the American Psychological Association; Incorporating culture and ethnicity into the field of psychology

Area of Expertise
Multicultural psychology; cultural diversity and leadership; infusing culture and diversity into psychology course; shamanism; spirituality, dream, visions, and spiritual intervention in counseling theory and practice; cultural measurement equivalence

Fee/ Honorarium requested
gratis; negotiable

Positionality Statement
Joseph E. Trimble PhD retired in June 2020 after teaching, conducting research, and publishing scholarly articles, book chapters, and books for 55 years. Throughout his career, he focused his efforts on promoting psychological and sociocultural research with indigenous populations, especially American Indians and Alaska Natives. Also he is involved in research on the influence of cultural diversity leadership styles and practices. From 2000-2001, he was a Fellow and Visiting Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies at Harvard University. Also, he was a President’s Professor at the Center for Alaska Native Health Research at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. In 2017-2018 he was a Visiting Scholar in the School of Psychology and Neuroscience at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. He has presented over 180 papers and invited addresses at national and international conferences and generated over 160 publications, including 22 authored or edited books. He has received 18 national and international awards including the Gold Medal Award for Lifetime Achievement in Psychology in the Public Interest from the American Psychological Foundation. In 2019, he received the Distinguished Alumni Award from the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Oklahoma.

Area of Expertise
The ADDRESSING Framework; Intersectionality in Counseling and Clinical Practice; Culturally Responsive Assessment; Culturally Responsive CBT; Cultivating Well-Being: A Culturally Responsive Approach

Fee/ Honorarium requested
Negotiable

Positionality Statement
Pamela Hays (she/her) is a cisgender, heterosexual woman of Scotch Irish heritage who grew up in rural Ohio and Alaska. During the first 20 years of her adult life, she lived in several states and overseas and was married to a Tunisian Muslim man from North Africa who moved to the U.S. with her. Pam’s grandfather was a Presbyterian minister and she was raised in the church, although following her divorce, she became a student of Buddhism. She has struggled with disability for periods of her life although currently does not consider herself disabled. In 2000, she returned to her hometown in Alaska where she has maintained a rural practice and worked with the tribal community health program.

Area of Expertise
Psychology of Asian American women; Asian American mental health; women’s mental health issues; Trauma treatment; disaster mental health assistance

Fee/ Honorarium requested
Negotiable

Positionality Statement
Reiko Homma True was born in Niigata, Japan 1933 and immigrated to U. S. in 1958. She completed a social work master’s program at U Berkeley and worked for 7 years for Alameda County Mental Health Services. She then completed a doctorate in clinical psychology in 1976 at California School for Professional Psychology in San Francisco.Her career, which spanned nearly 60 years, has been devoted to the advancement of culturally and linguistically appropriate Asian and minority mental health services.

Area of Expertise
Psychology of Men and Masculinities

Fee/ Honorarium requested
None (gratis)

Area of Expertise
Dynamical Systems Theory and Application (Chaos Theory, Non-independent/Non-linear Systems): Systemic change is both similar and different at cultural, societal, institutional, familial, and personal levels. Implications. Couples and Family Systems Theory and Applications: different cultures, families, and individuals; Psychodrama Theory and Applications; Praxis Theory and Applications (Not just practice, but the Social Justice view): intersection of theory development, research, practice, AND education—reciprocal influence. Gerontology: Aging, Ageism, and Systemic support in various cultures and societies

Fee/ Honorarium requested
None (gratis)

Positionality Statement
Rory Remer, decrepit cis-gender male, age challenged hetero. Born and (to some degree) raised in Passaic, NJ. Counseling Psychology Professor Emeritus. Involved in SJ activities for over 55 years– including the Louisville Schools Desegregation in 1970’s and Psychodrama cross-cultural intervention in Taiwan, China, and Korea as Fulbright Scholar and workshop trainer for 20 years. Exceptionally privileged by life experiences. Special facility in Families and other Dynamical Systems, focused on Systemic change.

Area of Expertise
Cultural competency in mental health services; Asian American mental health Social and policy advocacy

Fee/ Honorarium requested
“minimal”

Positionality Statement
My work can be classified into several areas: the (1) impact of culture and race on well-being, (2) importance of cultural competency in psychotherapeutic services, (3) mental health issues facing Asian Americans, and (4) use of culturally valid methods in science. By way of background, I am an American born Chinese. My experiences include a career conducting research and teaching at the university level, having a small private practice as a clinical psychologist, directing a clinical psychology internship and directing an NIHH-funded research center, and teaching several courses in China.

Area of Expertise
Unconstitutional incarceration of 125,000+ US residents of Japanese heritage; culturally based values research and the understanding of values to Asian Americans; history of AAPA

Area of Expertise
Immigrant adaptability and persistence, the Strength of Intersecting Identities, The Persistence of BIPOC women, Leading DEIB Efforts in Organizations, Career Lessons Learned as a Mexican American Woman

Fee/ Honorarium requested
None or gratis

Positionality Statement
Social justice and multicultural scholar, advocate, and professional association leader, committed to mentoring the next generation of psychologists. Research addresses immigrant and Latinx mental health, women’s leadership, cultural competency development, and strategic DEIB efforts in the workplace.

Area of Expertise
Indigenous Psychology

Fee/ Honorarium requested
Negotiable

Positionality Statement
Indigenous, American Indian