Page is a counseling psychology doctoral student at the University of North Dakota. Her professional and research interests include racial and sexual identity development; multicultural supervision and training issues; and leadership and advocacy, specifically for racial and ethnic minorities, lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) persons, and women. Page has served as an advocate on behalf of students for several years within APAGS/APA, university departments and state psychological associations. A scholar-activist who is committed to representing graduate students' diverse needs, Page intends to focus her Chair year on advocating for student concerns and interests around internship availability, mentorship, increasing the diversity of APAGS membership and encouraging student collaboration and communication. In particular, she hopes to foster a sense of community among graduate students by creating opportunities for collaboration, leadership development, and information dissemination, and utilizing technology to increase member communication.

Casas is a 5th year doctoral student in Clinical Neuropsychology at the University of Iowa. She is a fellow of both the APA’s Diversity Program in Neuroscience and the National Science Foundation’s Graduate Research Fellowship Program, and her research focuses on how cultural factors influence brain functioning and cognition. A scientist-activist, Casas is committed to using her research to inform public policy, and she recently spent two months on Capitol Hill as Division 9’s Dalmas A. Taylor Fellow. Chair-Elect of APAGS, Casas’ primary goal is to unify students across all subfields of Psychology to strengthen student representation within the APA.

Hasan is a pre-doctoral psychology intern at Michigan State University's Counseling Center and a doctoral student in counseling psychology at The University of Akron. Hasan will work to promote and enhance graduate student leadership skills and experiences. She will also continue her focus on providing resources for graduate students to internationalize their education and future careers. More specifically, she plans to leverage technology to promote resources for graduate students to obtain international learning experiences. Hasan has also served as the subcommittee chair of the APAGS Committee on Ethnic Minority Affairs and chair of APAGS's International Student Resource Project.

Arlette J. N. Atioky
Term: 8/08-8/10

Ngoubene Atioky is a fifth year student in counseling psychology at Lehigh University. As an upcoming APAGS Member-at-Large in charge of membership recruitment and retention, she aims at increasing visibility, participation, and involvement of all psychology students. Ngoubene Atioky will assess APAGS members’ needs and will serve as an advocating voice to students. Ngoubene Atioky also seeks to recruit and promote the participation of underrepresented students: she is set to propose new incentives that will facilitate APAGS members’ participation in the recruitment of psychology students.

Turner, a graduate student at Texas A&M University, is currently on internship at Florida State University Multidisciplinary Center and the College of Medicine Department of Medical Humanities & Social Sciences. His primary interest is child-family psychology with a focus on applying behavioral medicine treatments for use with ethnic minority populations. Turner's overall goal for his term is to "help future psychologists transition from students to practicing professionals". Through collaborations with the APA Practice Directorate and the Committee on Early Career Psychologists, he will strive to increase student awareness of state and national licensure issues, enhance the visibility of practice-relevant content on the APAGS website, and disseminate information to prepare students for practice in the current market.

White is a second-year student in the clinical psychology program at the University of Rhode Island. Her top goal is to ensure that the interests of graduate students continue to be reflected accurately in the publications of APAGS. In addition to participating in her department’s Taskforce on Multicultural Issues, and serving as a senator for her department in the Graduate Student Association, she served as her campus’ APAGS representative, where she made sure to keep the graduate students in the various psychology programs at her university informed of the latest APA and APAGS developments.

Jeong completed her internship at the VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System and is a recent graduate from the University of Memphis. She is now a postdoctoral fellow in the VA VISN3 Mental Illness Research, Education and Clinical Center (MIRECC) and the Mt. Sinai School of Medicine in Bronx, New York. During her second term as Education Member at Large, her priorities include encouraging graduate students to incorporate multicultural and international learning experiences in their education and training sequence as well as advocating for members of the education and training community to take action on the internship supply and demand imbalance issue.

Mattu is a fourth-year clinical psychology Ph.D. student at the Catholic University of American in Washington, D.C. He is currently preparing his dissertation proposal and hopes to focus his research on understanding the alarming decline of men in psychology. In addition to his research, Ali teaches introductory psychology at Catholic University and provides psychotherapy at Georgetown University. During his off hours, Mattu enjoys mountain biking and reading science fiction. He is an avid photographer and dreams of one day retiring from psychology and working as a photojournalist for National Geographic magazine. Mattu has three goals as Member-at-Large, Diversity Focus: to increase diversity in APAGS, increase training for diverse students, and increase support for diverse students.

Gobrogge is a Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Fellow, NIMH, Neuroscience doctoral candidate, at Florida State University. His research interests include investigation of the neurobiology of aggression. Currently, he serves as the local APAGS campus representative for Florida State University. As Member at Large-Science Focus, he will collaborate with the Science Student Council, Board of Scientific Affairs, and staff members of the Science Directorate to strengthen bench science constituencies in APAGS, increase dissemination of research-, publishing-, and grantsmanship-knowledge to basic science students, and enhance the visibility of and communication between research oriented graduate students in APA.