Funding for veterans’ mental health care and the need for research on how environmental problems affect children’s mental health are the top priorities for Flores, an associate professor at The City University of New York.
To champion these causes and many others, she helps to review legislation for APA, advocates for psychology on Capitol Hill and serves as an APA representative to the United Nations, to name a few of her efforts.
On the local level, as part of the Bay Ridge Democrats, she meets regularly with her district representative to advocate for the needs of her community. Flores also joins her church in sending letters to Congress on social justice issues and teaches her students about the importance of political involvement.
Her credo? “We always say that we don’t have a voice and we can’t impact things,” Flores says, “but in fact we can.”
