Member Biographies: Committee on Ethnic Minority Affairs

Hector Y. Adamés (2018-20)

Hector Y. Adamés, PsyD, received his doctorate in clinical psychology from the APA-accredited program at Wright State University in Ohio and completed his pre-doctoral internship at the Boston University School of Medicine's Center for Multicultural Training in Psychology. By training, he is a neuropsychologist and currently an associate professor at The Chicago School of Professional Psychology, Chicago Campus and the co-director of the Immigration Critical Race And Cultural Equity Lab. He is the editor of Latina/o Psychology Today and on the editorial board of APA’s Div. 17 journal, The Counseling Psychologist^® and the APA journal, Professional Psychology: Research & Practice^®. Adamés is the co-author of a textbook on Latinxs titled, "Cultural Foundations and Interventions in Latino/a Mental Health: History, Theory and within Group Differences," published by Routledge Press. His research focuses on how socio-race, skin-color, colorism, ethno-racial group membership, and immigration influence health and wellness. He has earned several awards including the 2014 Distinguished Professional Early Career Award from the National Latina/o Psychological Association. You can follow him on Twitter @HYAdames

A. Kathleen Burlew, PhD (2017-19)

Burlew is a McMicken professor of psychology at the University of Cincinnati. She received her PhD in social psychology from the University of Michigan. However, later, she re-trained in clinical psychology at Miami University (Ohio). Her research interests are in substance abuse treatment and HIV prevention. Recently, she has been a member of research teams that culturally adapted generic HIV interventions to be more appropriate for Black substance abusing men and women. She has also served as editor-in-chief of the Journal of Black Psychology. Currently, she is the associate editor of the Journal of Ethnicity in Substance Abuse. She also was appointed by the governor to the state board of psychology for Ohio. In addition to her position at the University of Cincinnati, she serves as the consulting psychologist at a substance abuse clinic in Cincinnati.

Don Pope-Davis, PhD (2018-20) 

Donald Pope-Davis is a longtime educator with a background in psychology and diversity. He has been a faculty member and served in high-level leadership positions both at DePaul University and the University of Notre Dame. He has also been a faculty member at the University of Iowa and the University of Maryland. He earned a bachelor’s degree in psychology and theology from Benedictine University in Lisle, Illinois. His master’s degree from Indiana University and his doctorate in counseling psychology from Stanford University.

Pope-Davis has been an educator for more than 25 years and has co-authored three books and written several research articles about multicultural counseling, education and psychology. The Journal of Counseling Psychology recently ranked him third in the country as one of the top research contributors in his area of specialization. The APA acknowledged his scholarly contributions by awarding him the distinction of fellow in the Society for Psychological Study of Ethnic Minority Issues, and in the Society of Counseling Psychology.

He has also served on the National Collegiate Athletic Association Committee on Academic Certification and is currently on the Advanced Placement Higher Education Advisory Council.

Glenna Stumblingbear-Riddle, PhD (2017-19)

Glenna Stumblingbear-Riddle, PhD, is a member of the Kiowa tribe and is a licensed health service psychologist. After serving as Director of Behavioral Health for a tribal clinic several years she has returned to her small-business Resilient Tribal Roots, PLLC, a Native- female owned business that promotes overall well-being, resilience, and health equity through therapy, trainings, consultation, and community engagement.

She also serves as an advisory board member for The Center for Healing Racial Trauma. On local and state levels, she has served on the Oklahoma Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services board and Oklahoma Southeastern Regional Child Death Review Board. In 2016, while serving as OPA’s Diversity Delegate she founded OPA’s Diversity Division and served as Chairperson for the Diversity Division.

She obtained her doctoral degree in counseling psychology at Oklahoma State University. She completed a pre-doctoral internship with the Oklahoma Health Consortium and post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Oklahoma's Counseling Center. Stumblingbear-Riddle is a member of the Society of Indian Psychologists, APA, Oklahoma Psychological Association (OPA), and a recipient of APA's Minority Fellowship Award. Dr. Stumblingbear-Riddle is dedicated to reducing behavioral health disparities and promoting overall mental health and wellness in Indian Country and marginalized communities. With specific focus on reducing suicide and the negative impact of trauma through the use of evidenced-based, community-led, cultural and strength based approaches. Her clinical and research interests include: American Indian/Alaska Native issues such as historical and intergenerational trauma, missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls and two-spirit people, diversity, health equity, social justice and advocacy, posttraumatic stress disorder, strength-based approaches, resilience, integration of evidence-based practices with cultural adaptations and lifespan issues.

Steven P. Verney, PhD (2019-21)

Steven P. Verney, PhD, is an Alaska Native (Tsimshian) Associate Professor in the department of Psychology at the University of New Mexico (UNM). He is currently a co-Investigator on the newly NIMHD-funded Health Disparities Center of Excellence to UNM, the Transdisciplinary Research, Equity and Engagement (TREE) Center for Advancing Behavioral Health, a Senior Fellow with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Center for Health Policy at UNM and a past fellow in the American Indian Alaska Native Program at the University of Colorado. He strives to increase diversity awareness and training and has developed the department’s Diversity Organization (DO!), a student organization to increase diversity awareness and training within the department, and the Cultural Counseling Center, which provides clinical supervision and consulting services to students working with diverse populations. Dr. Verney’s overarching philosophy is that culture counts. Culture is infused in all of our beings influencing how we think, feel, and behave. His research has evolved into a mental health disparities focus, especially in the American Indian/Alaska Native populations. He is interested in the role of culture in cognition and assessment including education (i.e., quality of education), language (bilingualism), and acculturation/cultural adaptation processes.

Sherry C. Wang, PhD (2019-21)

Sherry C. Wang is an assistant professor in the Department of Counseling Psychology at Santa Clara University (previously at the University of Southern Mississippi— where she expanded her focus from immigrant and refugee mental health to examine barriers of healthcare for African-Americans living in the Deep South). Her research focuses on the intersections of culture and health, with an increased emphasis on the sociocultural determinants of ethnic minority health disparities. To understand how individual and systemic influences intersect to perpetuate oppression, she draws from quantitative, qualitative and mixed methods approaches. She serves on the editorial boards of The Counseling Psychologist and the Asian American Journal of Psychology. She is a fellow of the APA Minority Fellowship Program, the University of California Los Angeles HIV/AIDS Substance Abuse and Training Program, and University of California, San Francisco's Visiting Professor Program in the Center for AIDS Prevention Studies. She has served on the Committee on Psychology and AIDS and she is currently the co-chair of the Asian American Psychological Association’s Division on Women. She was an early career award recipient at the National Multicultural and Counseling Summit.