The Stickland–Daniel
Distinguished Mentoring Award

This award from the Society for the Psychology of Women /Division 35 (Psychology of Women) of the American Psychological Association (APA) honors Bonnie R. Strickland and Jessica Henderson Daniel for their distinguished mentoring.

Bonnie Ruth Strickland has served psychology in many roles and leadership positions including President of the American Psychological Association and as a member of the Advisory Council to the National Institute of Mental Health. Through her scholarship and her advocacy, Strickland demonstrated insight into issues of privilege and barriers to access in relation to race, regionalism, gender, age, and sexual orientation. As a mentor at the national level, Dr. Strickland organized formal workshops to assist diverse women to access positions of leadership within the organizations and hierarchies of psychology. Throughout her career, Dr. Strickland has demonstrated a generosity of spirit in supporting women in psychology in their pursuit of their own goals.

Named as the first recipient of the Bonnie Strickland Distinguished Mentoring Award, Jessica Henderson Daniel was subsequently co-honored in the naming of the award. She is recognized as an outstanding mentor who has developed both formal and informal mentoring networks for ethnic minority graduate students at Boston University; psychology interns and post-doctoral fellows at Children's Hospital, Boston; and for ALANA interns and fellows at Harvard Medical School (HMS) affiliated hospitals. She is an Associate Professor at HMS. Dr. Henderson Daniel has served as President of Division 35 and member-at-large on the APA Board of Directors. Her career has primarily focused on instruction, training, and mentoring. She has interests in diversity training, the development of adolescent girls and media images of women.

The award is a plaque given annually at the Awards Ceremony of Division 35 at APA in August. The nomination process is opened in the Spring with a deadline in early May. Nominations involve: a nominating letter of NOT more than four pages, which outlines the qualifications of the candidate and (at least three) letters of support from colleagues, current and former protégés or employers. The materials are reviewed by a five-member committee.

The award recognizes the feminist mentoring of the award winner whose mentoring includes several of the following components:

• Introduces mentees to professional contacts and networks
• Takes a personal interest in the mentees
• Provides coaching, supervision, consulting to women psychologists in practice
• Develops an inclusive network of professionals and protégés that includes women from diverse ethnic/racial groups, sexual orientations, social class backgrounds
• Interacts with mentees in formal, informal, and social settings
• Promotes democratic and nonhierarchical styles of interacting
• Offers formal mentoring events and programs
• Models or discusses issues of professional and personal balance
• Provides encouragement and advice to women seeking leadership positions within their agencies and institutions
• Encourages women to participate actively in Division 35 and APA committees and governance

In 2007, the first recipient of the Strickland–Daniel Mentoring Award was Dr. Lisa A. Goodman, Boston College. In 2008, the recipient of the award was Dr. Marci Lobel, State University of New York, Stony Brook.

The first and current chair of the Strickland–Daniel Mentoring Award is Maureen C. McHugh. Members of the committee are Ruth Hall, Suzanna Rose, Nancy Sidun, and Laurie Roehrich.

Send nominating materials to Award Chair:

Maureen C. McHugh
Department of Psychology, 204 Uhler Hall
1020 Oakland Avenue
Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Indiana PA  15705

email: mcmchugh@IUP.edu

Deadline for 2009 nominations: April 20, 2009