With her bequest to the APF Campaign to Transform the Future, Nancy L. Baker, PhD, is helping to secure a strong future for psychology, and all that it can do to help society.
"I was taught that we should give to help make the world better," says Baker, a professor of psychology at Fielding Graduate University in Santa Barbara, California. "Since I think psychology has the potential to make the world better, channeling some of my giving to psychology makes sense."
Growing up in a small Southern town during the civil rights movement, Baker was very aware of the pervasiveness of racism. She saw that psychology could be a crucial force in ending racism and she decided to become a psychologist. Beginning her career at Stanford University, Baker has gone on to become a noted clinical psychologist in private practice and an author on issues of feminist psychology.
Throughout her career, Baker has devoted herself to training the next generation of psychologists and striving to ensure that "we as a field and profession live up to our potential for doing good in the world."
Now with a bequest to the foundation, Baker is committing her support to the field and to developing psychologists for many more years to come.
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