APAGS Subcommittee Chairs

Chair, Advocacy Coordinating Team (ACT) - Greg M. Matos
	Matos is a Clinical Psychology doctoral student at the Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology (MSPP). Matos is also an active member of the Massachusetts Psychological Association's Committee on Ethnic Minority Affairs. His professional and research interests include clinical treatment of veterans and their families as well as public policy development addressing the mental health care disparities faced by underserved populations. Matos plans to focus on empowering ACT as a grassroots coalition through increased training, streamlined state-to-state coordination, and campus outreach to raise awareness of Psychology's role in promoting social justice through active engagement of the democratic process.
Chair, Committee for Ethnic Minority Affairs (CEMA) - Innocent F. Okozi
	Okozi is a fourth-year doctoral student in the Counseling Psychology program at Seton Hall University, NJ. He is also a psychology intern at the University of Maine Counseling Center, Orono, Maine. As the current Chair of APAGS Committee on Ethnic Minority Affairs (CEMA), he is APAGS liaison to the Office of Ethnic Minority Affairs. This year, Okozi will work with CEMA Regional Diversity Coordinators to reach out to the different Diversity Coordinators or representatives in the State/Provincial /Territorial Psychological Associations to foster collaboration with them. He will also foster greater collaboration between APAGS and APA Division 45 and the Ethnic Minority Psychological Associations through their student representatives. He will also work with Central Office staff to maintain the success of the ethnic minority peer mentoring program.
Chair, Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Concerns (CLGBTC) - lore m. dickey
	A 5th year student at the University of North Dakota, dickey is in the Counseling Psychology Ph.D. program. Originally from Phoenix, AZ, dickey has spent most of his adult life in Seattle, WA. He is working on a research project that is focused on understanding the prevalence of self-injurious behavior in the transgender community. Active in local and national social justice efforts on behalf on the transgender community, dickey enjoys speaking to classes and at conferences about the transgender experience. His committee has been hard at work developing a Climate Guide for LGBT students; which he hopes will be available in the spring of 2010.
Chair, Convention Committee - Karen Kersting
	Kersting is a 2nd year doctoral student in the Counseling Psychology PhD program at Virginia Commonwealth University. Her primary research and clinical interest is in health psychology and she is currently working on a research project on coping with cancer diagnosis. She also enjoys teaching undergraduate students in courses including research statistics and the Psychology of Women. Kersting joins the APAGS Convention Committee as chair after being a member of the APAGS committee for two years as Member-at-Large, Membership Recruitment/Retention Focus. She hopes to build on the success of past APAGS Convention programs while continuing to grow the diversity and quality of events geared to students.
Chair, Science Committee - Michael K. Scullin
	Scullin is a third-year Ph.D.-track student in the Behavior, Brain, and Cognition program at Washington University in St. Louis. His research focuses on how younger and older adults remember to perform actions in the future such as remembering to take one's medication or remembering to pick up milk at the grocery store. In his role as chair of the recently formed Science Subcommittee, Scullin will work with the Executive Committee to determine this subcommittee's goals and develop a strategy for promoting the interests of science-focused students within APAGS.

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