Marcus Patterson has been a regional coordinator since 1997 for the APAGS-Advocacy Coordinating Team Committee, which represents the students of New England. He is also the founder and co-chair of the Massachusetts Psychological Association of Graduate Students, and serves as editor for the group's newsletter. As chair-elect, Patterson wants to focus on diversity, opportunities for future employment, addressing research and internship issues, and become familiar with training needs of students. Patterson is working on his PhD in clinical psychology at Boston University.

As Member-at-Large, Education Focus, Tamara Duckworth plans to concentrate on the training issues of multiculturalism and mentorship. With an expected growth in ethnic-minority populations in the United States, she plans to find ways to increase training for psychologists to improve their assessment and treatment skills of minorities.

Duckworth is a member of the Program Planning Committee for the 1999 Florida Conference on Child Health Psychology. She has won the 1998-99 Florida Education Fund McKnight Doctoral Fellowship and the 1997-98 University of Florida Graduate Minority Fellowship. She earned her master's in clinical and health psychology at the University of Florida and is working on her PhD in the same discipline.

New Member-at-Large, General Focus, Stacy Carmichael plans to boost graduate student visibility by increasing advocacy activities with lawmakers and public policy activists to make them more aware of the needs and wants of graduate students. Carmichael would also like to get involved more deeply in issues regarding diversity, ethics, mentorship and funding. Carmichael has served as an APAGS campus representative since 1997. She has also acted as a mentor for the University of Florida College of Health Professions Honors Program. She is working on her PhD in clinical child/pediatric psychology.

As the 1999 Member-at-Large, Practice Focus, Roxanne Manning will strive to confront the growing challenges to APAGS members, such as health-care policies that prevent psychology trainees from treating insured clients and proposed legislation that excludes clinical psychologists without medical degrees from assigning DSM-IV diagnoses. Manning would also like to increase the size of the APAGS web site, newsgroups and listservs to allow graduate students from all over the United States to share their knowledge and experiences. Manning is a campus representative for APAGS and the New York State Psychological Association. She is also a graduate mentor of the McNair Scholars Program.

APA mailed 25,308 ballots on April 1. By the close of the election on June 1, they received 2,922 ballots. The Election Committee tabulated the votes and certified the results.



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