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APAGS Subcommittee Chairs
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Advocacy Coordinating Team (ACT) - Greg M. Matos |
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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. |

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Chair, Committee for Ethnic Minority Affairs (CEMA)
- Innocent F. Okozi |
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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. |
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Chair, Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and
Transgender Concerns (CLGBTC) - lore m. dickey |
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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. |

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Chair, Convention Committee - Karen Kersting |
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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. |

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Chair, Science Committee - Michael K. Scullin |
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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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