2019 Board of Directors and Council Leadership Team Chair-Elect Election Results

Sandra L. Shullman, PhD, was elected as 2019 president elect; Diana L. Prescott, PhD, was elected as recording secretary; Pamela E. Scott-Johnson, PhD and Shannon Wiltsey Stirman, PhD were elected as members-at-large, and Cynthia de las Fuentes, PhD, was elected as 2019 Council Leadership Team chair-elect.

Sandra L. Shullman, PhD

Sandra L. Shullman PhD, partner, Executive Development Group, internationally known in leadership assessment and development, currently manages large, long-term global organizational client engagements, focusing on executive education and coaching, strategic leadership development, and organizational diversity initiatives. She is senior lecturer for the HEC School of Business in Paris, Shanghai, Beijing and Qatar, and part of the Duke University Global Learning Network faculty.

Shullman has served two terms on the APA Board of Directors and seven years on the Board of the American Psychological Foundation. She chaired the APA Good Governance Project, designed to align the organization with strategy and values, promoting transparency, engagement, inclusion and nimbleness at APA. Her distinguished record of organizational leadership spans higher education, research, healthcare and consulting firms.

Shullman’s current research and publications focus on leadership and uncertainty, while previously co-authoring Performance Appraisal on the Line. Sandy co-authored the first national-level study of sexual harassment in academia and the workplace.

Born in Philadelphia, Shullman grew up in transitional/project housing, introducing her to a range of diverse people, cultures and lifestyles, and leading to lifelong commitment and passion to bring together diverse groups, promote social justice, and enhance group, organizational and community effectiveness.

Shullman graduated from Dickinson College (bachelor's degree, mathematics honors), Harvard University (master's degree in education) and The Ohio State University (PhD, counseling psychology). As OSU Assistant Dean of Students, she co-founded one of the early U.S. women’s studies programs. She joined the Center for Creative Leadership in the mid 70’s as senior scientist, and, in 1981, became director of research for a consulting firm in Charlotte, North Carolina, focusing on labor relations issues across business sectors. In 1983, Shullman joined the counseling psychology doctoral program faculty at Kent State, initiating large-scale research and training on sexual harassment and hostile environments.

In the 1990’s, Shullman was co-founder and president of Organizational Horizons, a large behavioral healthcare independent practice and EAP organization. During that time, Shullman also was founding faculty member for the Cleveland State University Diversity Management Program, the first U.S. diversity management masters-level program.

Selected SPTA/APA governance leadership roles:

• President, Ohio Psychological Association
• Executive Boards, four APA divisions (13, 17, 42, 44); Member (1, 13, 14, 35, 38, 45); Fellow (1, 17, 31)
• Chair: Board of Professional Affairs
• Chair: Task Force on International Quality Standards in Psychology; Task Force on Executive Coaching; Task Force on the World Congress Against Racism Report; Council Work Group on Multicultural Guidelines
• Chair and co-founder, Leadership Institute for Women in Psychology (and faculty for leadership development programs in Divisions 17, 31 and Ohio Psychological Association)
• Member: Policy & Planning Board; Board for the Advancement of Psychology in the Public Interest; Committee on Women
• Member: Task Force on the Future of Practice; Task Force on the Implementation of the Multicultural Guidelines

Shullman has been recognized with the APA Award for Distinguished Professional Contributions to Independent Practice, an APF Gold Medal Award, the Leona Tyler Award, the Elizabeth Hurlock Beckman Award for Excellence in Education and Inspirational Leadership and two APA Presidential Citations.

Pamela E. Scott-Johnson, PhD

Pamela E. Scott-Johnson, PhD, is the dean of the College of Natural and Social Sciences and professor of psychology at California State University at Los Angeles in Los Angeles. Prior to Cal State LA, she served as dean of the College of Liberal Arts, former chairperson and professor of psychology at Morgan State University in Baltimore, Maryland. She earned a bachelor's degree in psychology and graduated magna cum laude from Spelman College (Atlanta, Ga.) in 1982, and an master's degree and PhD in psychology and neuroscience from Princeton University in 1984 and 1989, respectfully. Scott-Johnson is a committed teacher/scholar. Scott-Johnson has published widely in professional journals and has been principle investigator for a large number of research and program development grants, totaling more than $5 million. Her research interests include eating disorders, body image and sensory systems, as well as preparing more minority students for the psychology pipeline. She has also had funding that allowed her examine factors that contribute to the success of women in STEM fields and the academy. She was the lead designer of the doctoral program in psychometrics at Morgan.

Scott-Johnson has taught undergraduate and graduate courses in psychology and psychometrics, including courses in theories of learning and behavior, sensation and perception, and cognitive psychology, and industrial/ organizational psychology. Scott-Johnson has held memberships and leadership on committees in the American Psychological Association (Committee on Animal Research and Ethics & Divisions 1, 2, 5, & 8); Project Kaleidoscope (PKAL Summer Leadership Institute, National Advisory Board, Faculty for the 21st Century); the Leadership Alliance (a 31-institution consortium); the Association for Chemoreception Sciences; the Society for Neuroscience; Faculty for Undergraduate Neuroscience (FUN; councilor); Association of Heads of Psychology Departments (Board of Directors, 2007-2008); and the Southeastern Psychological Association (Committee for Equal Opportunities).

Scott-Johnson is a 2013 participant of HERS (Higher Education Resources Services), the 2009 American Psychological Association Leadership Institute for Women in Psychology, and 2005 participant of the Project Kaleidoscope Leadership Institute. Recently she was elected to the Board of Directors for the American Psychological Association, an organization serving more than 117,000 professionals who are committed to advancing psychology as a science and as a profession.

Scott-Johnson is married to Franklin Johnson. The couple has two children, Sara Elizabeth Amina Johnson and Scott Louis Andrew Johnson.

Shannon L. Wiltsey Stirman, PhD

Shannon Wiltsey Stirman is the acting deputy director of the Dissemination and Training Division at the National Center for PTSD and an associate professor at Stanford University’s Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. She has been conducting research that focuses on implementation and sustainability of evidence-based psychosocial treatments in public mental health settings. She was a Fellow of the NIMH and VA-funded Implementation Research Institute, and later served as an expert faculty member. She is an associate editor for APA Div. 12’s Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice, for Behavior Therapy, and Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research, and co-authored Div. 12’s website on Dissemination and Implementation. In addition to research, Wiltsey Stirman remains engaged in clinical work, training and consultation, and teaching. She was designated as a Rising Star by the Association for Psychological Science and awarded the ABCT Mid-Career Innovator Award in 2018. Her research and projects have been funded by the National Institute of Mental Health, the VA’s QUERI, and the Canadian Institute for Health Research.

Diana Lee Prescott, PhD

Cynthia de las Fuentes, PhD

While still in graduate school, Cynthia de las Fuentes was awarded a United States Congressional Fellowship through the Women’s Research and Education Institute and another fellowship with the Women’s Program Office of the Public Interest Directorate at the American Psychological Association. She earned a PhD in Counseling Psychology from the University of Texas at Austin in 1994 and subsequently became licensed by the State of Texas in 1996. From 1993-2007, she was a tenured associate professor of psychology at Our Lady of the Lake University, an APA accredited doctoral program, and held numerous leadership positions within the department and the university. Since 2007, she has worked in private practice offering consultation, psychotherapy, and assessment services. She has dozens of presentations and publications in her areas of scholarship: ethics in psychology, feminist psychology, and multicultural psychology. She is active in governance of the APA where, among other positions, she served as president of the Society for the Psychology of Women, on the Board of Education Affairs, and was a member and past chair of the Committee for Women in Psychology. In 2017, de las Fuentes began her service on the APA Council of Representatives representing Division 45, the Society for the Psychological Study of Culture, Ethnicity and Race. Additionally, she was elected a member and secretary of the Board of Trustees for the Texas Psychological Association and served as the editor of the Texas Psychologist in 2016. In 2018, she was elected to the Council Leadership Team as Chair-elect and will serve on the Board of Directors of the APA.