Featured Psychologist
Sumie Okazaki is a researcher and professor of applied psychology and who examines the impact of immigration, social change and race (i.e., racism, racial identity and racialization) on Asian and Asian-American adolescents, emerging adults, and parents within local and transnational contexts. She has taught in both the psychology and Asian American Studies program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and NYU Steinhardt.
Okazaki has served as the president of the Asian American Psychological Association and as associate editor of Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology. Okazaki has been the recipient of the Early Career Award for Distinguished Contribution from the Asian American Psychological Association, the Emerging Professional Award from the Society for the Psychological Study of Ethnic Minority Issues (Div. 45) and the Early Career Award and Dalmas Taylor Distinguished Contribution Award from the APA. Okazaki is also a Div. 45 fellow and a fellow of the Asian American Psychological Association.
Currently, Okazaki is conducting worldwide research projects comprised of urban Chinese and Korean Americans adolescents and immigrant young adults in New York City, Chinese parents and adolescents in Shanghai and Nanjing, Korean American adolescents and parents in Chicago, and current and former Korean early study abroad students in NYC, the Philippines and Seoul, South Korea.
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