Ayli Carrero Pinedo, PhD, is recognized with a Presidential Citation for her national leadership, advocacy, and sustained commitment to advancing equity in psychology, particularly in support of early career psychologists, graduate students, and communities impacted by racial and immigration-related trauma.
Carrero Pinedo is an early career psychologist in California whose clinical, scholarly, and advocacy work centers on providing evidence-based individual and group care to adults with intersecting identities, including race/ethnicity, immigration status, gender, sexual orientation, and nationality. Grounded in liberation psychology and public health frameworks, her work addresses race-based traumatic stress, systemic oppression, and social determinants of mental health. She has facilitated race-based traumatic stress groups and developed equity, diversity, and inclusion initiatives that have been integrated into psychology training programs and professional organizations nationwide.
In parallel with her clinical work, Carrero Pinedo has made substantial contributions to the psychology workforce and training pipeline. She is the founder of #PsychGradWishList, a nationally recognized mutual-aid initiative supporting Black, Indigenous, and Trainees of Color in health service psychology, and the founder of the CHANGE Grant (Cultivating Healing, Advocacy, Nonviolence, Growth, and Equity), now housed within the American Psychological Foundation. Her leadership has shaped policy and practice through service with the American Psychological Association, including roles on the Advocacy Coordinating Committee, the Trauma Psychology Division’s Inclusion, Diversity, Anti-Racism, and Equity (I-DARE) Taskforce, and the Future of Education and Practice Task Force.
Carrero Pinedo’s scholarly work includes peer-reviewed publications and national presentations addressing decolonizing psychology, Latinx immigrant health, and the experiences of trainees and professionals of color. Her work bridges research, clinical practice, and advocacy to reimagine psychological care as not only an individual intervention, but a collective and systems-level endeavor.
Her contributions have been recognized through numerous honors, including a Health Resources and Services Administration Behavioral Health Workforce Education and Training Grant, APA Division Presidential Citations, national fellowship awards through the APA Minority Fellowship Program, and recognition as Fellow of the Month by the Minority Fellowship Program Coordinating Center.