Thema S. Bryant, PhD, is currently serving as President of the American Psychological Association. She is a tenured professor of psychology in the Graduate School of Education and Psychology at Pepperdine University, where she directs the Culture and Trauma Research Laboratory. Her clinical and research interests center on interpersonal trauma and the societal trauma of oppression. She has raised public awareness regarding mental health by extending the reach of psychology beyond the academy and private therapy office through community programming, organizational consultation, popular books, and media engagement. Bryant completed her doctorate in clinical psychology at Duke University and her post-doctoral training at Harvard Medical Center's Victims of Violence Program. Bryant is a past president of the Society for the Psychology of Women and a past APA representative to the United Nations. Bryant-known popularly as Dr. Thema-is host of "Homecoming," a mental health podcast, and director of the mental health ministry at First AME Church in South Los Angeles. She is author of the book Homecoming: Overcome Fear and Trauma to Reclaim Your Whole Authentic Self and co-author of The Antiracism Handbook: Practical Tools to Shift Your Mindset & Uproot Racism in Your Life and Community. She is editor or co-editor of the APA books Womanist and Mujerista Psychologies: Voices of Fire, Acts of Courage and Multicultural Feminist Therapy: Helping Adolescent Girls of Color To Thrive. Her presidential initiatives aim to enhance belonging and engagement within APA and use psychological science to address trauma, grief, and oppression nationally and internationally.

During her graduate school training, Dr. Cynthia de las Fuentes was awarded a United States Congressional Fellowship through the Women's Research and Education Institute and another fellowship with the Women's Program Office of the Public Interest Directorate at the American Psychological Association (APA). She earned a Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology from the University of Texas at Austin in 1994 and subsequently became licensed by the State of Texas in 1996. From 1993-2007, she was a tenured associate professor of psychology at Our Lady of the Lake University, an APA accredited doctoral program, and held numerous leadership positions within the university and department including serving as Training Director. Since 2007, she has worked in private practice offering sliding-scale consultation, psychotherapy, and forensic evaluations focusing her expert testimony on the victims of hate crimes, racial, gender, and sexual orientation discrimination and immigration evaluations. Her pro bono work includes training bilingual psychologists in her community on the cultural and linguistic competent delivery of forensic evaluation services to the Latine immigrant community and delivering self-care and stress management workshops to immigration lawyers and their staff. She has dozens of presentations and publications in her areas of scholarship: ethics in psychology, feminist psychology, multicultural and Latine psychologies. She is active in governance of the APA where, among other positions, she served as president of the Society for the Psychology of Women, was a member of the Board of Education Affairs, was chair of the Committee for Women in Psychology, served on the APA Council of Representatives representing Division 45, the Society for the Psychological Study of Culture, Ethnicity and Race, was chair of the Council Leadership Team, and as a member of the Policy and Planning Board. She is a founding member of National Latinx Psychological Association and was elected a member and secretary of the Board of Trustees for the Texas Psychological Association. She is currently the 2023 President-elect of the American Psychological Association.

Frank C. Worrell, PhD, is a distinguished professor in the Berkeley School of Education at the University of California, Berkeley, where he serves as faculty director of the school psychology program, the Academic Talent Development Program, and the California College Preparatory Academy. He is a certified school psychologist and a licensed psychologist. Born in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, Worrell originally intended to become an English teacher. In his senior year of high school, he saw a student fall apart on stage at a school concert and decided to minor in psychology in order to help his future students. But an introductory psychology course piqued his interest in psychology and a Commonwealth Scholarship from Canada and Trinidad and Tobago resulted in him changing his major and he never looked back. He received his bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Western Ontario and his doctorate from UC Berkeley. In addition to his position in the School of Education at UC Berkeley, Worrell is an affiliate professor in the social and personality area in the Department of Psychology. His areas of expertise include at-risk youth, cultural identities, scale development and validation, talent development/gifted education, teacher effectiveness, time perspective, and the translation of psychological research findings into practice. Worrell has long been active at APA, serving as a member at large of the Board of Directors from 2016−18. Worrell served as president of APA's Division of School Psychology in 2007 and then on the APA Council of Representatives representing that Division from 2010−15. He is a member of seven APA divisions, with fellow status in five, and has served on multiple APA committees, boards, and task forces. He has authored more than 300 academic publications and co-edited The Cambridge Handbook of Applied School Psychology published in 2020. His professional awards include the Distinguished Contributions to Research Award from APA's Division for the Psychological Study of Culture, Ethnicity, and Race; the Outstanding International Psychologist Award from APA's Division on International Psychology; the Nadine Lambert Outstanding School Psychologist Award from the California Association of School Psychologists; a Presidential Award from the National Association of School Psychologists; and a Presidential Citation from APA. He is also a member of the National Academy of Education and the Society for the Study of School Psychology.