APA President: Jessica Henderson Daniel, PhD, ABPP
Alexis Abernethy, PhD
For her leadership in empowering marginalized communities to overcome the cultural and systemic barriers to their health and well-being.
Erin Andrews, PhD
For her leadership in advocacy and informing policy, practice and education about disability issues and the needs of underserved parents with disabilities.
Michael Campbell, PhD
For his sustained service and leadership in psychology and a wide range of activities across organizations and countries throughout the Caribbean.
Kira Hudson Banks, PhD
For being a catalyst for transformation, learning and action in the aftermath of the Ferguson, Missouri protests and unrest in 2014 and beyond, and for now being a leader in racial equity in the St. Louis region.
Kim Baranowski, PhD
For her sustained commitment to leadership in advocacy, supporting survivors of human rights violations and improving the lives of disenfranchised minority populations.
David H. Barlow, PhD
For his commitment to diversifying the profession by ensuring all students are supported with funding and mentoring during graduate school.
Donell Barnett, PhD
For being a catalyst for transformation in his hometown of Langston, Oklahoma.
Alfiee M. Breland-Noble, PhD, MHSc
For her commitment to integrating community-based participatory action with culturally relevant research methods to address mental health disparities and improve the lives of young people, families and communities of color.
Britney G. Brinkman, PhD
For her engagement and leadership in social justice organizations to improve the overall health and well-being of Black girls and women in the Pittsburgh area.
Arline L. Bronzaft, PhD
For being an exemplar of passion, coalition building and leadership for her sustained community activities in New York City.
Nayeli Chavez-Dueñas, PhD
For her exemplary leadership and service in immigrant communities.
Carol Lynn Courtney and Richard Olson, PhD
For their sustained commitment to leading international service learning projects that not only assist organizations globally but model the benefits of volunteerism and civic engagement for students.
Catherine Cook-Cottone, PhD
For her advocacy and implementation of evidence-based mind-body practices throughout the Buffalo, New York community.
Sara Dolan, PhD
For her sustained leadership in disaster response with the Waco-McLennan County Medical Reserve Corps in Central Texas.
Debra Eisert, PhD
For her sustained volunteer service and leadership in her community, in particular to the Jasper Mountain Center, a non-profit treatment center that brings healing to severely traumatized children and their families.
Margaret Ann “Bonny” Gardner, PhD
For her leadership and sustained commitment to social justice through dissemination of knowledge, advocacy and leadership in the Austin, Texas community.
Michele G. Gill, PhD
For her dedication, advocacy and actions to transform public education through the application of psychological learning principles.
Robyn L. Gobin, PhD
For her leadership in reducing barriers to mental health treatment for ethnic minority populations and creating an educational pipeline for the next generation of culturally diverse leaders in the field of psychology.
Alan L. Goldberg, PsyD, ABPP, JD
For his sustained advocacy for advancing psychology as a STEM science at the state and national level.
Nicholas E. Grant, PhD
For his stellar leadership and service to the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and questioning communities.
Lee Gurel, PhD
For his sustained advocacy for psychology at the secondary level and high school psychology teachers nationwide.
Perry N. Halkitis, PhD
For his unwavering dedication to stemming the HIV/AIDS epidemic and other health disparities through sustained advocacy that addresses important social and public health issues of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community.
W. Rodney Hammond, PhD
Recognized as an exemplar of broad and diverse leadership in which he has demonstrated impressive skill in working with people, policies and organizations to improve outcomes for all citizens.
Skyler D. Jackson, PhD
For his sustained dedication to equity and social change throughout his graduate studies with demonstrated commitment to using his psychological training and leadership skills to make the world a better place.
Christopher Liang, PhD
For his leadership and sustained community advocacy in increasing the focus on equity and inclusion in the Central Bucks School District in Pennsylvania.
Bruce S. Liese, PhD
For his leadership and sustained commitment to Douglas County and the city of Lawrence, Kansas in both volunteer and elected capacities.
Richard E. Mayer, PhD
For his leadership and longstanding impact on early and elementary education in the Goleta Union School District in California.
Lisa Merlo Greene, PhD
For her sustained volunteerism to advocate for improved quality of life in Gainesville, Florida and beyond.
Garth Neufeld, PhD
For his leadership in social justice and human rights by providing at-risk children with the tools to avoid a life of extreme poverty and work within the sex trade in Thailand.
Arlene Noriega, PhD
For her leadership and sustained commitment to service to marginalized and oppressed populations in her community.
Michael Salamon, PhD
For his transformative work in raising awareness of the prevention and treatment of child sexual abuse in the Orthodox Jewish community and aiding victims to obtain the help and support they needed.
Nancy K. Schlossberg, EdD
For her sustained leadership as a changemaker in her Sarasota, Florida community, channeling the robust capacities of older adults as significant contributors to community well-being.
Felicitas Sebastian, PhD
For her sustained community engagement and leadership in serving underserved women and minority populations of McLean County, Illinois.
Emily M. Selby-Nelson, PsyD
For her dedication, advocacy and actions to address access, quality of care and quality of life in rural communities.
Rachel Singer, PhD
For her leadership and unwavering dedication to social justice and reduction or elimination of barriers to mental health services in Montgomery County, Maryland.
Michael A. Smyer, PhD
For his leadership and sustained commitment to education and activism in the area of climate change, its detrimental impact on older adults and older adults’ capacity for climate leadership.
Michael Sullivan, PhD
For being an exemplar of sustained activities in his community and across the lifespan.
Jeanne Alice Swickard Hoffman, PhD, ABPP
For Hoffman's demonstrated focus on the well-being of children and families by completing a dissertation and co-authoring a publication in Science focused on childhood exposure to heptachlor, a pesticide.
Rebecca Thomley, PhD
For her exemplary leadership and service to disaster relief efforts nationally and internationally.
David Van Nuys, PhD
For his exemplary leadership as a contributor to international public education about psychological science and practice in his innovative podcast, “Shrink Rap Radio.”
Diane J. Willis, PhD
For her sustained leadership in enhancing behavioral health services for children in Native American communities and for being on the front lines of assuring health equity to underserved children and families throughout her career.
Lisa Willner, PhD
For her exemplar of broad and diverse community leadership, dedicated work ethic and impressive dexterity in working with people, policies and organizations.