Shavonne Moore-Lobban, PhD, a board-certified counseling psychologist, is awarded this APA Presidential Citation for excellence in leadership with a special focus on leadership to address trauma and oppression. Moore-Lobban has excelled as a leader locally and nationally, in scholarship, administration, and community application. A few premier examples of her excellence in leadership include her presidency of Division 17 (Society for Counseling Psychology), her noteworthy role on the Diversity, Social Justice, and Inclusion Committee for the DC Psychological Association, ECP section editor for the Division 56 Trauma Psychology News, past member of the APA EDI workgroup, past Legacy Fund cochair for the National Multicultural Conference and Summit, past APA presidential task force member for Expanded Advocacy Integration Model, and her successful chairing of APA’s first community-based mental health summit which was held in 2023. As a result of her pioneering leadership, this successful summit was hosted at Howard University’s Law School with the theme of Psychology for the People. It featured empowering and informative workshops to assist community members in coping with and healing from trauma, grief, and oppression. Empirical support collected after the summit demonstrated its positive impact on attendees.
In addition to her leadership through service, Moore-Lobban has provided thought leadership through her scholarship for the academy and the general public. Her work has centered on intimate partner abuse, liberation psychology, child abuse, and feminist psychology.
Moore-Lobban’s leadership has been celebrated and honored by multiple organizations including the APA Committee on Women in Psychology, Division 45, Division 35, Division 17, DePaul University, and Purdue University. Professionally, Moore-Lobban has been a visionary and transformational leader in her roles as campus director of training, internship director, director of clinical training, and presently director of Campus Operations and Culture at the Chicago School Washington, D.C. campus. As a result of her consistent spirit of excellence over many years of service to the field, Dr. Shavonne Moore-Lobban is awarded this APA Presidential Citation.