Indigo ABEF
Jul 15, 2023 05:15 PM - 06:30 PM(America/Los_Angeles)
20230715T1715 20230715T1830 America/Los_Angeles Plenary Session #5- Expanding Awareness of Less Visible Historical and Ongoing Collective Traumas

Donna Nagata, Ph.D., is Professor of Psychology in the Clinical Science Area at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. During World War II, the US government ordered 120,000 Japanese American men, women, and children into isolated incarceration camps because of their shared ethnic heritage with the enemy country of Japan, without regard for their citizenship or the opportunity for individual review. Dr. Nagata's research centers on the multigenerational impacts of this unjust historical trauma in three generations of Japanese Americans. Her work has explored the perspectives of U.S.-born former incarcerees reflecting on their years of imprisonment and their reactions to receiving governmental redress for that injustice more than 40 years after leaving the camps. She has also examined indirect impacts of this trauma among the incarcerees' offspring born after the war. Her current study investigates these legacies among the grandchildren of those who were imprisoned. In addition to numerous articles and chapters, Dr. Nagata has published two books. She is the author of "Legacy of Injustice: Exploring the Cross-Generational Impact of the Japanese American Internment" and lead editor of "Qualitative Strategies for Ethnocultural Research".

Dr. Guerda Nicolas, Professor in the Educational and Psychological Studies department at University of Miami, School of Education and Human Development; Past Secretary General of the Caribbean Alliance of National Psychological Association; and Co-Founder of Ayiti Community Trust and Rebati Sante Mantale. Born in Grand Goave and raised in TiGoave, she immigrated to the United States in her teens. She obtained her doctoral degree in clinical psychology from Boston University. She completed her predoctoral traini ...

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Donna Nagata, Ph.D., is Professor of Psychology in the Clinical Science Area at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. During World War II, the US government ordered 120,000 Japanese American men, women, and children into isolated incarceration camps because of their shared ethnic heritage with the enemy country of Japan, without regard for their citizenship or the opportunity for individual review. Dr. Nagata's research centers on the multigenerational impacts of this unjust historical trauma in three generations of Japanese Americans. Her work has explored the perspectives of U.S.-born former incarcerees reflecting on their years of imprisonment and their reactions to receiving governmental redress for that injustice more than 40 years after leaving the camps. She has also examined indirect impacts of this trauma among the incarcerees' offspring born after the war. Her current study investigates these legacies among the grandchildren of those who were imprisoned. In addition to numerous articles and chapters, Dr. Nagata has published two books. She is the author of "Legacy of Injustice: Exploring the Cross-Generational Impact of the Japanese American Internment" and lead editor of "Qualitative Strategies for Ethnocultural Research".

Dr. Guerda Nicolas, Professor in the Educational and Psychological Studies department at University of Miami, School of Education and Human Development; Past Secretary General of the Caribbean Alliance of National Psychological Association; and Co-Founder of Ayiti Community Trust and Rebati Sante Mantale. Born in Grand Goave and raised in TiGoave, she immigrated to the United States in her teens. She obtained her doctoral degree in clinical psychology from Boston University. She completed her predoctoral training at Columbia University Medical Center and her postdoctoral training the New York State Psychiatric Institute/Columbia University, Department of Child Psychiatry. As a multicultural (Haitian American) and multilingual psychologist (Spanish, French, and Haitian Creole), her research is reflective of her background and interests. Her current research focus on the integration of race and culture and well-being for ethnically diverse and immigrant communities. Some of the projects that she is currently working on includes: promoting academic excellence among ethnically diverse youth, identify development of Black youths, and empowering ethnically diverse parents to be effective parents. In addition, she conducts research on social support networks of Caribbean populations with a specific focus on Haitians. She has published several articles and book chapters and delivered numerous invited presentations at the national and international conferences in the areas of culture and mental health, racism and health, Haitian mental health, women issues, depression and intervention among Haitians, social support networks of ethnic minorities, and spirituality. She is the recipient of the 2018 Humanitarian Award of the American Psychological Association.

E. J. R. David, Ph.D. is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Alaska Anchorage, specializing in ethnic minority psychology. He has produced five books: Brown Skin, White Minds: Filipino -/ American Postcolonial Psychology (2013), Internalized Oppression: The Psychology of Marginalized Groups (2014), The Psychology of Oppression (2017), We Have Not Stopped Trembling Yet (2018) and "The Sage Encyclopedia of Filipina/x/o American Studies (2022). He was the 2012 American Psychological Association Minority Fellowship Program Early Career Award in Research for Distinguished Contributions to the Field of Racial and Ethnic Minority Psychology; the 2013 Asian American Psychological Association Early Career Award for Distinguished Contributions to Research; and in 2015 he was inducted as a Fellow by the Asian American Psychological Association for "Unusual and Outstanding Contributions to Asian American Psychology."


Germine Awad's scholarship is characterized by three interrelated areas of inquiry: prejudice and discrimination, identity and acculturation, and body image among women of color. She has also written in the area of multicultural research methodology. Much of her research is guided by the questions "What factors lead to discrimination against minoritized ethnic groups?" and "What impacts perceptions of experienced discrimination?" The two populations that she has primarily focused on are Arab/Middle Eastern Americans and African Americans. Dr. Awad is concerned with how prejudicial attitudes and ideology impact attitudes towards minoritized ethnic groups generally and within specific domains such as the workplace and higher education. In addition, she examines how racial/ethnic identity and acculturation impact minoritized ethnic groups' perceptions of discrimination. She has expanded her identity and acculturation research to the study of body image concerns among women of color.



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University of Miami
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University of Alaska Anchorage
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University of Michigan
Professor of Psychology
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University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
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Northern Arizona University
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