Endorsements

Organizations

APA Caucus of State, Provincial and Territorial Representatives
APA Division 17, Society of Counseling Psychology
APA Division 29, Psychotherapy
APA Division 31, State, Provincial, and Territorial Psychological Association Affairs
APA Division 35, Society for the Psychology of Women
APA Division 39, Psychoanalysis
APA Division 42, Psychologists in Independent Practice
APA Division 44, Society for the Psychological Study of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual Issues
APA Division 45, Society for the Psychological Study of Ethnic Minority Issues
APA Division 56, Trauma Psychology
Association for Women in Psychology
Association of Practicing Psychologists, Caucus of the Council of Representatives
Capital Area Psychological Association, Austin, Texas
Massachusetts Psychological Association
National Latina/o Psychological Association
New York State Psychological Association's Division of Women's Issues
Oregon Psychological Association
Section on Racial Diversity, APA Division 17
Taiwan Psychology Network
Texas Psychological Association
Washington State Psychological Association

Psychologists

Robert Abel Jr.
Rosalie J. Ackerman, PhD
Hector Y. Adames, Psy.D.
Eve Adams, PhD
Maria G. Aguirre, Ph.D.
Muninder Ahluwalia, PhD
Beverly L. Alexander, Ph.D., President, Capital Area Psychological Association
Judie Alpert, PhD, Past President, Division 56
Neil Altman, PhD
Carla M. Alvarez
Kathryn B. Anderson, Phd
Paul Andrews, PhD
Karla Anhalt
Merla Arnold, Ph.D., RN, Committee on Aging
Patricia Arredondo, EdD, Past President, National Latino/a Psychological Association
Robert Atwell, PsyD, Council of National Psychology Associations for the Advancement of Ethnic Minority Interests
Asuncion Miteria Austria, PhD, Member-at-large/Chair Committee on Diversity, Division12; Council Representative, Division 35;
Gonzalo Bacigalupe
Nancy L. Baker, Ph.D., ABPP
Martha E. Banks, PhD, President, Division 35
Jill Barber, PhD
Carolyn Barcus, PhD
Jeffrey E. Barnett, PsyD, ABPP, Past President APA Divisions 29, 31, 42; Chair, APA Ethics Committee
Augustine Baron, Psy.D, ABPP
Eleonora Bartoli, PhD
Susan Basow, Phd
Ana A. Baumann , Ph.D
Lula Beatty, PhD.
Mari C. Bennasar, PsyD, Commission for the Recognition of Specialties and Proficiencies in Professional Psychology
Lynne A. Bennion, Ph.D.
Wendy Biss, PhD
Anne Boone, Psy.D.
Evelinn A. Borrayo, PhD
Frances Boulon- Díaz, PhD
Beth Boyd, PhD, Past President, Division 45, Council of National Psychology Associations for the Advancement of
Kalina Brabeck, Ph.D.
Alfiee M. Breland-Noble, PhD
Sharon Brennan, PhD
Dorith Brodbar
Gary Brooke, PhD, Past President, Division 51
Tamara L. Brown, PhD
Laura S. Brown, PhD. ABPP, President-Elect, Division 56 Past President, Divisions 35, 44, & Washington State Psychol
Kathleen S. Brown, Ph.D.
Robin Buhrke, PhD
Lydia P. Buki, PhD, Committee of Women in Psychology
Theo Burnes
Sam Buser, PhD, Past President, Texas Psychological Association
Linda Campbell, PhD, Past President, Division 29, Past Chair, Board of Education Affairs
Silvia S. Canetto, Phd
Jesus Manuel Casas, PhD, President, Division 45, Committee Children, Youth, and Families
Carrie L. Castañeda-Sound, PhD
Linda G. Castillo, PhD
Connie S. Chan, Ph.D
Teresa Chapa-Cantu
Marilyn Charles, PhD, ABPP
Shannon Chavez-Korell, PhD
Karen Chen, PhD, Chair, Committee on Ethnic Minority Affairs
Jean Lau Chin, EdD, Past President, Division 35
Chun-Chung Choi, Ph.D. Chair, Taiwan Psychology Network
Joan C. Chrisler, Phd, Past President, Division 35
Kirstyn Yuk Sim Chun, Ph.D.
Barry Y. Chung, PhD, Member, APA Board of Educational Affairs
Meredith N. Cohn, Ph.D.
Ron L. Cohorn, Ph.D., Past President, Texas Psychological Association
Ellen Cole, PhD President Elect, Division 35
Dr. Topher Collier
Lillian Comas-Diaz, PhD, Past President, Division 42, , Publications and Communications Board, Book Advisory Committee
Andrés J. Consoli, PhD, President, Interamerican Society of Psychology
Stephen W. Cook, PhD
Helen L. Coons, Ph.D., ABPP
Helen L. Coons, Ph.D., ABPP
Stewart Cooper, PhD, Past President, Division 13
Chanda C. Corbett, Community Engagement Committee Chair
Barbara Cowen, PhD
Kathleen Crowley, Phd
Carmen Cruz, Psy.D.
Kathlyn C. Dailey, PhD
Jessica Henderson Daniel, PhD, ABPP, Past Member, APA Board of Directors, Past President, Division 35
Jaine Darwin, Psy.D
Priscilla Dass-Brailsford, EdD
Donna S. Davenport, PhD
Steven David, PhD
Kelly Cue Davis, PhD
Cynthia de las Fuentes, PhD, Past President, Division 35
Dennis Debiak
IRENE DEITCH, PhD
Edward A. Delgado-Romero, PhD, President, National Latina/o Psychological Association
Eduardo I. Diaz, Phd, President, Division 48
Rene Diaz-Lefebvre, Dr.
Kathleen Dockett, EdD
Melanie M. Domenech Rodriguez, PhD
Julie Dorton Clack
Louise A. Douce, PhD, Past President, Divison 17
John F. Dovidio, Ph.D.
Chris Downs
David Drum, Ph.D.
G. Rita Dudley-Grant, Ph.D., MPH
Michael Duffy, PhD, Past President, Texas Psychological Association
Michelle R. Dunlap, Ph.D.
Sari H. Dworkin, PhD
Lisa M. Edwards, PhD
Randall Ehrbar, PsyD
Marina Epstein
Jenny Erickson Cornish, Ph.D., ABPP
Edna M. Esnil, PsyD
Dorothy Espelage, PhD
Lauren Farwell
Ruth Fassinger, PhD, Past President, Division 44
Betty J. Feir, Ph.D.
Lisa Y. Flores, Ph,D.
Pamela F. Foley, PhD
Linda Forrest, PhD, Past President, Division 17
Lisa L. Frey, Ph.D.
William Fried
Michi Fu, PhD
Milton A. Fuentes, Psy.D.
Miguel E. Gallardo, Psy.D.
Yolanda Evie Garcia, PhD
Karina Garcia-Bravo, PhD
Jacquelyn H. Gentry, PhD
Randy Georgemiller, PhD, President, Division 44
Gwen Gerber, PhD
Eleanor F. Gil-Kashiwabara, Psy.D.
Angela R. Gillem, PhD
Judith Glassgold, PsyD
Alberta M. Gloria, PhD
Terry S. Gock, PhD
Michael P. Goh, PhD
JOHANNA GONZALEZ
Elyse Joi Gonzalez , MS. Ed
Glenn E. Good, PhD, Past President, APA Div 51
Tamara McClintock Greenberg, PsyD, MS
Beverly Greene, PhD, ABPP
Laura Ortiz Guillén, Ph.D.
Michele R R. Guzmán, PhD
Mary R. Hampton
Ay Ling A. Han, PhD
Kristin Hancock, PhD
Jane Harmon Jacobs, Ph.D.
Elizabeth B. Haviland, Ph.D.
Donna Hawxhurst, PhD
Kate F. Hays, PhD, Past President, Division 47
Amy K. Heesacker, PhD
Janet Helms, PhD, President, Divison 17
Puncky Paul Heppner, PhD, Past President, Division 17
Roderick D. Hetzel, Ph.D.
Jill S. Hill, Ph.D.
Jeffrey S. Hird, PhD
Clare G. Holzman, PhD
Sally Singer Horwatt, PhD
Jeanette Hsu, PhD
Joyce Illfelder-Kaye, Ph.D.
Tania Israel, PhD
Sue C. Jacobs, PhD
Sharon Rae Jenkins, PhD
Josephine Johnson, PhD
Josephine D. Johnson, PhD
Ingrid Johnston-Robledo, PhD
Patricia Y. Jones, PhD
Elizabeth M. Katz, Ph.D.
Debra Kawahara, PhD
Greg Keilin, PhD
Kadlec Kelly, PhD
Maurine Kelly, PhD
Taleb Khairallah
Chris Kilmartin, PhD
Douglas Kimmel, PhD, Past President, Division 44
Charlotte M. Kimmel, Ph.D.
Ibrahim A. Kira, Dr.
Sharon Kirkland-Gordon, Ph.D.
Linda K. Knauss, Ph.D.
Julie Koch, PhD
Eleanor B. Komet, Ph.D.
Judy Kuriansky, PhD
Dorinda J. Lambert, Ph.D.
Phi Loan Le, Psy.D
Jill Lee-Barber
paul leung, PhD
Paul Leung
Ron F. Levant, EdD, ABPP, MBA, Past President, APA
Julie Meranzel Levitt
Michele K. Lewis, Ph.D.
Michele K. Lewis, Ph.D.
Gisela Lin, Ph.D., ABPP, Past President, Asian American Psychological Association
Jim L. Linn, PhD.
Erendira Lopez-Garcia, Psy.D.
Michael Lowey
William A. MacGillivray
Salvador Macias, Ph.D.
Margaret Madden, PhD
Amina Mahmood
Eva M. Maldonado, Psy.D.
Kelly, Carrie and Fergie R. Mandela, Sr.
Bruce Mansbridge, PhD
Bonnie Markham, PhD, PsyD
Holly P. Martin
Raul Martinez, Ph.D.
Sandra Mattar, PsyD
Marsha McCary, PhD
Glen E. McClure, PhD
Joseph H. McCoy, Ph.D., Past-President Rio Grande Valley Psych. Assoc.
Laure “Lali” McCubbin, PhD
Steve McCutcheon, Ph.D.
Valerie McGaha
Richard M. McGraw, PhD, Past President, Texas Psychological Association
Maureen C. McHugh, PhD
Ryan McKelley, PhD
Brian W. McNeill, Ph.D.
Bob McPherson, PhD, Past President, Texas Psychological Association
Nancy McWilliams, PhD, Past President, Division 39
Rob Mehl, Ph.D,, President-Elect Designate, Texas Psychological Association
Rachael L. Meir
scott mesh, phd
Norweeta G. Milburn, Ph.D.
Joe Miles
Jeffery Scott Mio
Jonathan Mohr
Linda Mona, PhD
Haydee Montenegro, PsyD
Olivia Moorehead-Slaughter, PhD
Eduardo Morales, Ph.D.
Melissa Morgan, PhD
Robert Morgan, PhD President-Elect Division 14
John Moritsugu, Ph.D.
Lee L. Morrison, PhD
Susan L. Morrow, PhD
Zainab Nael
Marion Nesbit, Ph.D.
Helen Neville, PhD
Guerda Nicalas, PhD
John C. Norcross, Ph.D.
Arlene Noriega, PhD
Roberta L. Nutt, Ph.D., ABPP, Past President, APA Divisions 43 &17
Mary O'Leary Wiley, PhD
Shirley M. Ogletree, Ph.D.
Fernando A. Ortiz
Laura K. Palmer, PhD
Freddy A. Paniagua, PhD
David Pantalone, PhD
William D. Parham, PhD, ABPP, Past President, Divison 17
Carlton W. Parks, Jr., Ph.D.
Paul B. Pedersen, Prof
Julie A. Penley, PhD
Carlos I. Perez Benitez
Julia Phillips, PhD
Wade Pickren, PhD, President-Elect, Division 26
Martin R. Pierre
Lisa M. Porche-Burke, PhD
Natalie Porter, PhD, Past President, Division 35
Jennifer Primack, PhD
Stacey E. Prince, Ph.D.
Virginia G. Quinonez, Psy.D.
Stephen M. Quintana, PhD
Fredric Rabinowitz
Deborah Fish Ragin, PhD, Past President, Division 48
Brian L. Ragsdale, PhD
David Ramirez, PhD Former President, Division 39
Mary Lou Randour
Faye A. Reimers, PhD
Pam Remer, PhD
Jaquie Resnick
Geneva Reynaga-Abiko, PsyD
Amy L. Reynolds, PhD
Tina Richardson, PhD
Aaron B. Rochlen, Ph.D. President Elect, Division 51
Elaine Rodino, Ph.D., Past President, APA Divisions 42 & 46
Suzanna Rose, PhD
Dan Rosen, Ph.D.
Marianne Ross, PhD
Louis Rothchild, PhD
Lisa Rubin, PhD
Lisa R. Rubin, Ph.D.
David Rudd, Ph.D., ABPP, Past President and Council Representative, Texas Psychological Association
Glenda M. Russell, Ph.D.
Glenda M. Russell, Ph.D.
Lynda M. Sagrestano, PhD
Dianne S. Salter, Ph.D.
Francisco “Cisco” Sanchez, PhD, Coordinator 2011 National Multicultural Conference &Summit
Shara Sand, Psy.D., Chair, Divisions for Social Justice
Mike Schaub
Michael J. Scheel, PhD
Lewis Z. Schlosser, Ph.D.
Jonathan P. Schwartz, PhD
Ollie J. Seay, Ph.D., President, Texas Psychological Association
Robert Sellers, PhD, President-Elect, Division 45
Selia Servin-Lopez, PsyD
Robbie N. Sharp, Ph.D.
Mark Shermis, PhD, Chair, Assessment Committee, Division 5
Stephanie Shields, PhD
Sandra Shullman, PhD Former Member, Board of Directors
Louise B. Silverstein, PH.D.
Anneliese Singh, PhD
Danny Singley
Andrew Smiles
Nathan Grant Smith, PhD
Elsie J. Smith, PhD
Laura Sobik
Gargi Roysircar Sodowsky, PhD
Renee Spencer, Ed.D.
Vicky Y. Spradling, Ph.D., ABPP-CN
Sally D. Stabb, PhD
Brian H. Stagner, PhD, President Elect, Texas Psychological Association
Jeanne L. Stanley, Ph.D.
Alan E. Stewart, President-Elect Division 34
DeVon R. Stokes, Sr.
Frances W. Stott, PhD
Linda M. Subich, Ph.D.
Derald Wing Sue, PhD, Past President, Divisions 17 & 45
Richard M. Suinn, PhD, Past President, APA
Lisa Suzuki, PhD
Janet K. Swim
Cheryl Talley, PhD
Jod Taywaditep, Ph.D.
Yvette N. Tazeau, Ph.D.
Jennifer Teramoto Pedrotti, Ph.D.
Lisa Rey Thomas, PhD, Past Chair, Committee Ethnic Minority Affairs
Nina Thomas, PhD, ABPP
Rebecca Toporek, PhD
Cheryl Travis, PhD, Past President, Division 35
Fran Trotman, Ph.D
Reiko Homma True, PhD
Yuying Tsong, PhD
Sherri Turner, PhD
Judith L. Van Hoorn, Ph.D.
Veronica Vargas, Ph.D., LMFT
Thomas J. Vaughn, PhD, ABPP, Past President of Oklahoma Psychological Association and Former President of ASPPB
Elisa Velasquez, Ph.D.
Darrelle M. Volwiler, PhD
Laurie Wagner, B. PhD
Fabiana G. Wallis, Ph.D.
Earlise Ward
Earlise C. Ward, Ph.D.
David C. Weigle, PhD
John Westefeld, PhD, President-Elect, Division 17
Susan K. Whitbourne
David Whitcomb, PhD
Jacquelyn White, PhD, Past President, Division 35
Joseph White, PhD
Elizabeth (Libby) N. Williams, PhD
Carol Williams-Nickelson, PsyD
Beryl L. Wingate, PsyD, LP
Joel Wong
Frank Y. Wong
Roger Worthington, PhD
Cheryl Wu, PsyD
Karen F. Wyche, PhD
Kirstyn Yuk Sim Chun
Karen Zager, PhD
Maria Cecilia Zea, Ph.D.
Heidi A. Zetzer
Michael A. Zirato

Students

Laura Alie
Aracely Arellano Lopez
R. Gabriela Barajas, M.A.
Brittany N. Barber
Karla T. Blanco
Jarrod Campbell, B.A., B.S.C.J.
Miguel Angel Cano
Gizelle V. Carr, M.A.
Alison Cerezo, Ms.
Hung Chiao
Espen Correll, MA, iMFT
Thu A. Dang, MA
Marla Delgado, M.S.
Brian M. Denietolis, M.S.
Vasudev N. Dixit, M.A.
Alicia Enciso, M.A.
Susana G. Espinosa
Steve C. Garcia
Patton Garriott
Kenia L. Gomez
Elyse J. Gonzalez, MS.Ed
Elyse Joi Gonzalez, Ms.Ed
Juliim Green, MS
Cynthia E. Guzman, M.A., LMHC
Joseph H. Hammer
Yuhong He
Jessica Hernandez
Tracie L. Hitter, M.S.
Shannon Y. Horine, M.Ed.
Eder Lemus
Zeb Kai Kok Lim, MS
Araceli López-Arenas
Johanna Malaret, MA
Greg Matos
Patrick J. Meade
Cynthia Medina
Rachael L. Meir, M.S.
Araceli Mejia, Ms
Enmanuel Mercedes
Kristine M. Molina, M.S.
Andrea Zainab Omidy Nael
Fanny Ng
Arlette AJNA Ngoubene Atioky, M.Ed
Emily A. Nisley
Innocent F. Okozi
Evonne D. Olson
Viara Quiñones-Jackson, M.A.
Karina Ramos, MEd
Maria J. Rendon
Sarel Rivera
Myriel Rodriguez
Enedelia Sauceda, MS
David Scheinfeld
Wendy E. Siu
Melissa A. Talamantes, MS
Rhonda N. Torki, M.Ed.
Kim Tran, M.A.
Oscar S. Ureno
Dellanira Valencia-Garcia
Arlene Velez-Galan, M.S.
Kaori Wada, MA
Daniel Walinsky

Long-Standing, Numerous Contributions to APA

I echo the many APA members who endorse Melba Vasquez for APA President and write of her knowledge and creative leadership, and long-standing, numerous contributions to APA.

As a writer, colleague, and mentor, Melba has worked tirelessly for decades to broaden the scope of psychological knowledge and, importantly, the diversity of who we are as psychologists as well as whom we serve. I admire Melba for the ways that she reaches out to bring together those who have different viewpoints, for the way she listens so carefully and works to solve problems collaboratively.

In addition, Melba will serve APA well as President because she is one of those remarkable people who can articulate clearly to the public and policy makers the varied contributions that psychology makes to people’s well-being. Her leadership as President will help us, as professionals in many roles, serve the broader society by working together to address today’s social challenges.

Judith Van Hoorn, Ph.D.
APA Council Representative and Past President,
Division 48: Peace Psychology

Skillful and Effective Leadership

For over two decades Melba Vasquez has been my colleague and good friend. We have co-authored books and served on committees together. I know her well. She has demonstrated skillful and effective leadership in chairing APA committees and task-forces, in serving as president of different APA divisions and a state psychological association, and in doing the hard work of shepherding difficult projects to successful conclusions. Her many awards attest to her wide range of accomplishments. She is a psychologist of impressive integrity, courage, persistence, and wisdom. She is dedicated to APA, its goals and values, and her background and strengths are well matched to the challenges that APA faces. I believe she will be an excellent president of the American Psychological Association. Please give her your #1 vote!

Ken Pope, Ph.D., ABPP

Consummate Scientist-Practitioner: Advancing All of Psychology

Melba Vasquez's knowledge of APA and psychology in the larger world has developed over many years of service to APA as a professional organization. Her leadership experience within APA has been extensive and crossed all four directorates (practice, education & training, science, and public interest) . She is a consummate scientist-practitioner having been successful in independent practice for many years while also being a substantial contributor to the professional literature. Her public interest and diversity credentials are impeccable. Her roots in education and training are strong having served as a Training Director in a large accredited internship and publishing a major textbook on professional ethics. Her commitment to advance ALL of psychology and her strong leadership skills & experiences make her our BEST choice for our next APA President.

Linda Forrest, Ph.D.
Professor, Past Department Chair, Past Associate Dean, University of Oregon
Current Member, APA Ethics Committee
Past President, APA Division 17
Past Member APA Council
Past Chair, APA Committee on Women in Psychology

Boundless Creative Energy

I have worked with Melba Vasquez when we served on CAPP together and have had the unique opportunity to experience her creative, proactive, and visionary thinking. Melba Vasquez has made significant contributions to the field of psychology through her scholarly research, organizational expertise, and proven leadership experience. She has boundless creative energy, and is committed to practice. She is a strong voice for psychology and I heartily endorse her and support her candidacy for President of APA.

Rosalind S. Dorlen, Psy.D., ABPP, LLC APA Council, Past-President NJPA and CAPP member

A Consummate Leader

As a consummate leader in our profession, Dr. Melba Vasquez takes her warm generous spirit and interpersonal skills and deftly applies them as easily in building coalitions as in repairing schisms while never losing sight of the values and vision of the groups she represents. I can think of no better role model, mentor, teacher, healer, and leader to represent us all as President of the APA.

Cynthia de las Fuentes, PhD
Past President, Division 35

Voice of Calm, Reason and Openness

Melba Vasquez is that extraordinary combination; a visionary leader who is also an effective one, a person who can chair an important meeting to its successful conclusion and also contribute to the development of theory and practice in psychology. Melba has been a voice of calm, reason, and openness in turbulent times and places, making her more than suited to lead APA during this period of change. I'm thrilled to have the chance to vote for her for APA President.

Laura S. Brown, Ph.D. ABPP
President-Elect, Division 56, Past President, Division 35, & 44 & Washington State Psychological Association.
Past President, Division 35

Ethically Centered Leadership

Dr. Vasquez is a leader who has used her knowledge of ethics to guide her decision making on a personal and systemic level. Consequently she is often ahead of the curve on helping psychologists do what is right, even if doing so is difficult. Through her many roles in APA and other psychological associations she has consistently been a model for psychologists fulfilling the promise of our aspirations. As psychologists and the country face harsh economic times, Dr. Vasquez is uniquely qualified and capable of providing ethically centered leadership.

Edward Delgado-Romero, Ph.D.
President National Latina/o Psychological Association
APA Fellow, Divisions 45 and 17

Exemplary Leadership

Melba Vasquez has a long history of exemplary leadership in diverse areas of APA governance, state psychological associations and in the provision of education and training about the practice of psychology. Her service to our association has been visionary and she has demonstrated time and again a capacity to bring people of disparate perspectives and backgrounds together to solve problems. Give Melba your #1 vote for APA President!

Beverly Green, PhD, ABPP
Professor of Psychology, St. John's University Council of Representatives, Division 42 (2005-2008) Member Policy & Planning Board

Universal Respect

I have known Melba Vasquez for about 20 years through various APA committees, and on Council. She is a very smart, articulate and courageous psychologist. She has written or co-authored a number of articles and books on ethics which have established standards in the field. Dr. Vasquez has worked very hard on APA cultural diversity, but has also had a strong influence on other issues, including private practice psychology. She enjoys almost universal respect among her APA colleagues, and is a genuinely nice and helpful person. I would urge your vote for her in the upcoming election.

William E. Foote, Ph.D., ABPP

No One is Better Fit for APA President

Melba Vasquez is a leader who elegantly brings together diverse viewpoints and constituencies. As an independently practicing clinician, forensic consultant, respected author and member of APA governance, she has demonstrated her excellence in everything she pursues. No one is a better fit for APA President!

Martin H. Williams, Ph.D.
Fellow, American Psychological Association
Past Member at Large, Division 42
Past Editor, Independent Practitioner

Right Person at the Right Time

Melba Vasquez spends every day of her life respecting those who disagree with her, defending those whose voices are unpopular, showing kindness to those who do not reciprocate. She understands the fundamental interconnectedness of science, training, and practice. Melba is the right person at the right time to be our president.

Linda Campbell, Ph.D.
Council Representative, Division 29, Psychotherapy and Professor,
University of Georgia

A Uniting Force

Melba Vasquez is the embodiment of APA’s vision—a uniting force, catalyst, resource, innovator, advocate, leader, and champion. With her at the helm, APA has a real chance of living out the true meaning of its creed as the 21st century voice of psychology. It is an honor to endorse her and a privilege to vote for her.

Josephine Johnson, Ph.D.
Council Representative, Division 42,
Psychologists in Independent Practice

Great Respect for Melba Vasquez

I have great respect for Melba Vasquez’ diversity of knowledge, skills, understanding, and action. I have known her as an educator, clinician, author, running friend, and engaged activist on behalf of APA. She has brought to each role her integrity, warmth, compassion, clear thinking, grounding in scholarly research, ethical centeredness, energy, creative purpose in action, and multicultural vision. She will be an inspired President of APA. It is an honor to endorse her and a privilege to vote for her.

Kate F. Hays, Ph.D., C.Psych.
APA Fellow Past President, Division 47,
Council Representative, Exercise & Sport Psychology

A Dedicated Psychologist with Vast Experience

Melba Vasquez is a scientist-practitioner, a published scholar, a dedicated psychologist with vast experience in governing within organized psychology (including 9 years on Council, 3 years on the Board of Directors, and past president of two APA divisions). She is a fair-minded, even-handed, and caring professional who creatively solves problems in ways that benefit all involved. APA and all of its members need the continued excellence of Melba Vasquez's leadership, integrity, and passion on behalf of APA and psychology.

Carole Rayburn, Fellow, APA

Melba Vasquez is the Renaissance Woman Psychologist

I have had the pleasure of serving with Melba on the APA Ethics Committee, and on Council, of learning from her at Workshops, and relating to her as colleague and friend. Melba Vasquez is the Renaissance Woman Psychologist.... a theorist, a practitioner, an ethicist, a leader par excellence, powerful, sensitive, supportive. collaborative - someone who can be counted on to act wisely and responsibly as she represents all of us as President.

Matty Canter, PhD
AzPA Past President and
APA Council Representative

Utmost Esteem and Respect

I hope this note conveys the utmost esteem and respect I have for Dr. Melba Vasquez for her numerous contributions to scholarly research, training and education, public interest issues, and professional leadership. I had an opportunity to work with her and find her to be a strong, committed, and inclusive leader. I am honored to endorse a most deserving candidate for the APA President-elect.

Asuncion Miteria Austria, PhD
Professor of Psychology
Chair and Director of Clinical Training
Graduate Program in Clinical Psychology
Cardinal Stritch University

Trailblazing Psychologist in Professional Leadership

Melba Vasquez, Ph.D., ABPP is a trailblazing psychologist in professional leadership. At the local and national levels, Dr. Vasquez has often been the “first” or only voice to represent the concerns of those who had no voice at the time, including veterans, women, and racial/ethnic minorities. Advocacy for social justice has always been a guiding principle in her career. She has served in many administrative roles in the American Psychological Association at the division and board levels. In each of these roles, her service has been marked by compassion, empathy, a cool head in the face of turmoil, and the capacity to bring people together and help them to see multiple view points. Her leadership has been unselfish—as an independent practitioner, she might easily have been too busy to volunteer her services to better the profession, but she was not; she might easily have been too busy to mentor the large numbers of upcoming psychologists who sought her guidance, but she somehow always managed to find time for them. Dr. Vasquez is a psychologist with a heart and she knows how to use it to promote the betterment of others. I will be giving her my #1 vote when I receive the presidential election ballot and I hope you will too.

Janet Helms
Past President,
Society of Counseling Psychology