Culture Counts:
Multicultural Interventions
in Clinics,
Schools, and Other Organizations
Presenters' Biographical Information
GSAPP Cultural Conference
October 16th, 2009
Keynote Presenters:
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Dorothy Strickland, PhD is the Samuel DeWitt Proctor Professor of Education at Rutgers University. She was formerly the Arthur I. Gates Professor of Education at Teachers College, Columbia University and the State of NJ Professor of Reading. A former classroom teacher and learning disabilities specialist, she has authored and edited numerous publications concerning language development and reading. She received the Distinguished Alumnus Award from both Kean College of New Jersey and New York University. In 1994 she was the recipient of the National Council of Teachers of English Rewey Bell Inglis Award as Outstanding Woman in English Education. She is past president of both the International Reading Association and of its Reading Hall of Fame. The National Council of Teachers of English honored Dr. Strickland with the 1998 Outstanding Educator in the English Language Arts Award. She served on the national panels that produced Preventing Reading Difficulties and the RAND report, Reading for Understanding. She was recently invited to present the Annual Jeanne Chall Distinguished Address at Harvard University. Dr. Strickland was appointed by Governor Corzine to the New Jersey Board of Education in January 2008.
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Nancy Boyd-Franklin, PhD is a psychologist and a professor at Rutgers University in the Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology (GSAPP). She is the author of five books: Black Families in Therapy: A Multisystems Approach (Guilford Press, 1989) and an editor of Children, Families and HIV/AIDS (Guilford Press, 1995). Her other books include: Reaching Out in Family Therapy: Home-based, School and Community Interventions with Dr. Brenna Bry (Guilford Press, 2000) and Boys Into Men: Raising Our African American Teenage Sons with Dr. A.J. Franklin. (Plume, 2001). Guilford Press published the second edition of Black amilies in Therapy: Understanding the African American Experience in 2003. Currently, she is writing two books: Therapy in the Real World and Multicultural Approaches to Trauma.
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Presenters:
Hector Y. Adames, PsyD completed his graduate training in clinical psychology at Wright State University in Ohio and his clinical predoctoral internship at the Boston University School of Medicine's Center for Multicultural Mental Health. Currently, he is completing a residency in clinical neuropsychology. His research and clinical interests focuse on memory, multiculturalism, Latino/a psychology, and on the intersectionality of neuropsychology, cultural competency, and professional training in psychology.
Joan Adams, LCSW is Director of Anti-racism and Multicultural Consultation and Training Service at the Jewish Board of Family and Children's Services. She also maintains a part-time psychotherapy private practice. Ms. Adams has led many workshops, taught courses and done consultation on issues of identity, context and diversity in mental health and higher education.
Jack Farrell, LCSW is a program analyst for the Violence Institute of NJ
(VINJ) at UMDNJ in Newark, NJ. VINJ is a multi-disciplinary center dedicated to the study and prevention of violence through research, outreach and education/training.
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Milton Fuentes, PsyD received his MA in psychology with a concentration in Latino mental health from Montclair State University and his Psy.D in clinical psychology from GSAPP at Rutgers University. He is currently an Associate Professor of Psychology at Montclair State University, Co-Director of the Latin American and Latino Studies program and a licensed psychologist in New Jersey and New York. He is one of the founding members of the Latino Psychological Association of New Jersey
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Hugh Love Jr. is a native of Memphis, TN. He graduated from Morehouse College in 2005 with a B.A. in Business Marketing and currently is a graduate student at New York University in the Counseling for Mental Health and Wellness program. His research interests include multicultural counseling, racial minority adolescents and sexual minority (LGBT) adolescents. Hugh is currently a research intern at the Center for Health, Identity, Behavior and Prevention Studies at NYU where he is concurrently working on Project P18 and Project Strength both examining positive and negative behaviors linked to the sexual health of an urban sample of men who have sex with men (MSM). Hugh plans to pursue doctoral studies and focus on community-based intervention and research with at-risk adolescent populations
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Lisette Maniatis, Ph.D is a school psychologist in the White Plains School District in New York. She provides services for a culturally, linguistically, and socio-economically diverse student population. She received her doctorate in school psychology from Fordham University. She has worked as a consultant for Sesame Workshop in New York and through the USAID with the Ministry of Education in El Salvador and the Honduran Ministry of Education.
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Igda Martínez, PsyD received her doctorate in clinical psychology from GSAPP at Rutgers University. She is a clinical researcher interested in Latino mental health and acculturation. Her work at the Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research focuses on the experience of Latinos taking antidepressants and the influences of their families on adherence. In addition, she is interested in investigating Latinos’ perspectives and the stigma of major depression and various treatment options.
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Michael Mobley, PhD
received his Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology from Penn State University in 1998. He is currently an associate professor at Rutgers University, in the Department of Educational Psychology. Prior to Rutgers, Dr. Mobley was a faculty member at the University of Missouri-Columbia from 1997-2008. His expertise and research interests include multicultural counseling competencies, perfectionism, application of Self-Empowerment Theory and resilience among culturally diverse adolescents in community and school settings, and racial, ethnic, and gay & lesbian identity development models. Dr. Mobley served as principal investigator of a 7-year, 2.75 million dollar U.S. Department of Education GEAR UP grant project from 1999-2006.
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Mary Ann Smorra, EdD is a Professor of Education at Georgian Court University, New Jersey. She also serves as a presenter and performer for organizations located nationally and internationally. Inspired by the Creative Problem Solving Institute for many years, Mary Ann received the Colleague Award and Leadership, Service, Commitment Award.
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Lisa Suzuki, PhD is an associate professor in the Department of Applied Psychology at New York University. Her main research interests have been in the areas of multicultural assessment, training, and qualitative research methods. She is coeditor of the Handbook of Multicultural Assessment and the Handbook of Multicultural Counseling.
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Grace Wong, PhD is a psychologist at South Beach Psychiatric Center (Staten Island, New York) working with monolingual Chinese-speaking patients. She maintains an active private practice and is the president of the Division of Culture, Race, and Ethnicity for clinical psychology from Fuller Graduate School of Psychology.
