1. What are your plans for continuing to enhance diversity within APA?

My campaign theme is Exclusion is Easy but Inclusion is Power! The Presidential Task Force on Enhancing Diversity did a wonderful job of describing the unwelcoming environment that some can experience during their interactions with APA. The task force report contains numerous recommendations that are designed to enhance the strides already made by APA and to forge new territory that makes APA feel more like home to all psychologists. I plan to implement the recommendations.

APA Council of Representatives made a fundamentally sound decision to establish observer status on the Council for the Ethnic Minority Psychology Organizations. It is a first step in healing the breeches that have existed between APA and these organizations. I will work to cement those relationships. We must have all of our groups within the circle if APA is to be a powerful organization. We need to extend the sense of welcome, power and access to all ethnicities, races, scientists, sexual orientations, gender, practitioners, religious faiths, abilities, ages and more. We need all of our colleagues.

2. What is your position on ethnic minority issues?

I have worked my entire life to bring minority issues to the forefront in the field of psychology. I am a cofounder of the National Multicultural Conference and Summit . My writings and presentations are mainly in the multicultural area beginning with my dissertation in the late 1970's. Ethnic minority issues are a fundamental part of who I am.

3. Describe your efforts to implement cultural relevant issues into practice, training, and research.

Whenever I am a part of any group or committee, I see it as my responsibility to bring relevant cultural issues to the forefront. When I served on the ethics committee during the last revision of the code, I spoke up for putting ethnic issues into the document. My work on vocational psychology and multiculturalism is among the first work of that type. I developed and implemented an ethnic training track for interns from the very beginning of the development of the pre-doctoral internship training program at our university counseling center. I worked on passage of the Multicultural Guidelines and have provided support for all of the diversity guidelines. You might care to note the numerous writings and presentations in this area. My basic philosophy is that we exist in a cultural context, therefore, all training, research and practice must intentionally include cultural issues.