Liberation Now Podcast

In this episode, Helen Neville and Radia DeLuna speak with Dr. Nayeli Y. Chavez-Dueñas and Dr. Hector Y. Adames about decolonizing psychology and psychotherapy. Dr. Chavez-Dueñas and Dr. Adames share their insights regarding liberation and decolonization as constant, sometimes painful, journeys and their critical roles in psychology. Listen as we examine the transformative power of unlearning and liberating our minds, and imagine what becomes possible when we embrace liberation psychology in our psychological practice, scientific inquiry, and everyday lives.

ABOUT THE GUESTS

Dr. Nayeli Y. Chavez-Dueñas is a Full Professor at The Chicago School, College of Professional Psychology where she serves as the faculty coordinator for the concentration in Latinx Mental Health in the Counseling Psychology Department. She is the co-founder and co-director of the IC-RACE Lab. Her scholarship examines colorism, racism, immigration, and culturally grounded mental health practices in Latinx communities, with a focus on healing from ethnoracial trauma and advancing decolonial approaches to psychology. She has authored and co-authored several influential books and numerous articles on Latinx mental health and social justice in psychology and earned several awards from the American Psychological Association (APA), the National Latinx Psychological Association (NLPA) the National Multicultural Conference Summit.

Dr. Hector Y. Adames is a nationally recognized leader in decolonial and liberation psychology. As a Full Professor at The Chicago School, College of Professional Psychology, he co-founded and co-directs the IC-RACE Lab, driving research on ethics, racism, racial trauma, and culturally responsive psychotherapy for Communities of Color. Dr. Adames has authored or co-authored eight influential books and numerous articles, advancing innovative approaches within psychology designed to support Black, Indigenous, and other People of Color. His work has earned prestigious honors from the Society for the Psychological Study of Culture, Ethnicity, and Race (APA Division 45), the National Latinx Psychological Association (NLPA), and the American Psychological Association for his commitment to human rights and racial justice through research, service, and mentorship.

SELECTED WORKS RELATED TO THE EPISODE

Adames, H. Y., & Chavez-Dueñas, N. Y. (2026). Construyendo a decolonial Latinx mental health with Black and Indigenous Latinxs at the center. In M. Campos, Y. Mejia, & A. Consoli (Eds.), Forging caminos: Pathways to becoming a bilingual mental health professional (pp. 69–85). American Psychological Association. https://doi.org/10.1037/0000481-005

Adames, H. Y., Chavez-Dueñas, N. Y., Jernigan, M. M., & Helms, J. E. (2025). Racism-conscious reflexivity in qualitative research: A practical methodological framework. Qualitative Psychology, 12(2), 129–141. https://doi.org/10.1037/qup0000315 (https://psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/qup0000315)

Chavez-Dueñas, N. Y., Adames, H. Y., Perez-Chavez, J. G., & Salas, S. P. (2019). Healing ethno-racial trauma in Latinx immigrant communities: Cultivating hope, resistance, and action. American Psychologist, 74(1), 49–62. https://doi.org/10.1037/amp0000289

Chavez-Dueñas, N. Y., Adames, H. Y., Pope, K. S., & Vasquez, M. J. T. (2025). The fierce ethical urgency of decoloniality in therapy: From understanding to action. American Psychologist, 80(4), 510–521. https://doi.org/10.1037/amp0001370

Chavez-Dueñas, N. Y., Perez-Chavez, J. G., & Adames, H. Y. (2026). Echoes from the HEART: Applying the healing ethno and racial trauma framework with Immigrants of Color. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/tra0002222

Comas-Díaz, L., Adames, H. Y., & Chavez-Dueñas, N. Y. (Eds.). (2024). Decolonial psychology: Toward anticolonial theories, research, training, and practice. American Psychological Association. https://doi.org/10.1037/0000376-000

Goertz, M. T., Adames, H. Y., Parker, C., Chavez-Dueñas, N. Y., DeLuna, R., & Perez-Chavez, J. G. (2024). The decolonial mentoring framework: Advancing an anticolonial future in psychology and beyond. In L. Comas-Díaz, H. Y. Adames, & N. Y. Chavez-Dueñas (Eds.), Decolonial psychology: Toward anticolonial theories, research, training, and practice (pp. 247–269). American Psychological Association. https://doi.org/10.1037/0000376-011

Pope, K. S., Chavez-Dueñas, N. Y., Adames, H. Y., Sonne, J. L., & Greene, B. A. (2023). Speaking the unspoken: Breaking the silence, myths, and taboos that hurt therapists and patients. American Psychological Association. https://doi.org/10.1037/0000350-000

Pope, K. S., Vasquez, M. J. T., Chavez-Dueñas, N. Y., & Adames, H. Y. (2026). Ethics in psychotherapy and counseling: A practical guide (7th ed.). John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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Episode Intro: Radia DeLuna and Helen Neville

Episode Outro: Radia DeLuna and Helen Neville

In this Juneteenth episode, Helen Neville speaks with Illinois State Representative Carol Ammons about reparations as a process of repair, healing, historical truth, and self-determination. The conversation explores the legal foundations of reparations, the relationship between public policy and racial justice, the importance of restoring memory and ancestry, and concrete ways listeners can engage in reparative justice.

ABOUT THE GUEST

State Representative Carol Ammons is serving her sixth term representing Illinois' 103rd District, proudly serving the communities of Champaign-Urbana and the surrounding region. A lifelong activist and accomplished legislator, Rep. Ammons has dedicated her career to advancing equity, justice, and opportunity for all Illinoisans. She made history as the first African American woman elected to represent the 103rd District, and she continues to be a steadfast advocate for her constituents and a leading voice on issues of racial justice, economic equity, environmental sustainability, higher education, and community well-being.

With nearly 15 years of elected public service spanning county, municipal, and state government, Rep. Ammons brings the perspective of both a grassroots organizer and an experienced policymaker. Her work is grounded in the belief that lasting social change requires strong partnerships between community organizers and elected officials. Throughout her legislative career, she has championed transformative policies that expand opportunity, remove systemic barriers, and strengthen communities across Illinois.

Committee Assignments

• Chair, Energy & Environment Committee
• Appropriations – Higher Education
• Economic Opportunity & Equity
• Ethics & Elections
• Higher Education
• Museum, Arts, Culture, & Entertainment
• Personnel & Pensions

Task Forces and Commissions

• Comprehensive Licensing Information to Minimize Barriers Task Force
• Commission on Equitable Public University Funding
• Mahomet Aquifer Council
• Supreme Court Commission on Pretrial Practices Final Report Implementation Task Force
• Task Force on Campus Sexual Misconduct Climate Surveys
• Task Force on Higher Education in Prisons

• First Repair National organization supporting state and local reparations initiatives and hosting the National Symposium on State and Local Reparations.
• H.R. 40 Federal bill to establish a commission to study and develop reparations proposals.
• S.40 Senate companion legislation on reparations.
• California Reparations Task Force Report Landmark report and recommendations.
• Evanston Reparations Nation's first publicly funded municipal reparations program.
• New York State Reparations Commission Information on New York's reparations commission.
• Asheville Community Reparations Local reparations initiative.
• TAKIR (The African Kinship and Identity Reconstruction Project) Illinois genealogy initiative that reconnects African descendants with family histories.

SELECTED REPARATIONS GROUPS

• N'COBRA (National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America)
• Malcolm X Grassroots Movement (MXGM)
• CARICOM Reparations Commission
• National Reparations Network

• Learn about reparations efforts in your own community.
• Attend the National Symposium on State and Local Reparations.
• Support state and local reparations legislation.
• Read scholarship on reparative justice and African American history.
• Engage elected officials about reparative policies.
• Support organizations advancing healing, historical truth, and self-determination.

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Episode Production: Helen Neville and Salman Safir

EPISODE TRANSCRIPT

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In this episode of Liberation Now, Salman Safir and Helen Neville sit down with Dr. José Causadias to discuss his recent open access textbook, Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in the United States. Drawing from his experiences as a Panamanian immigrant and scholar, Dr. Causadias describes the book as a "love letter" to the United States. In this powerful text he critically unpacks the myth of the American Dream, centers the lived experiences and scholarship of Women of Color, and exposes how laws and policies actively produce inequity. We explore why accessibility matters, how stories and case studies can cultivate critical consciousness, and what it means to ground JEDI work in ethics, care, and humanization. This is a powerful conversation you won't want to miss if you're committed to justice, collective action, and liberation.

ABOUT THE GUEST Dr. José M. Causadias (he/him) is a Panamanian developmental psychologist, activist, and author of "Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in the United States" a new Open Access textbook published by Cambridge University Press. He earned a bachelor's in psychology at Universidad Santa Maria La Antigua in Panama in 2001, a master in psychotherapy at Universidad Complutense de Madrid in Spain in 2004, and a PhD in Child Psychology at the University of Minnesota in 2014. He worked as faculty in the School of Family and Human Development at Arizona State University from 2015 to 2025. He received tenure in 2021 and was promoted to Associate Professor. He is currently the Director of the Education Research Center in Panama.

He pursues innovation in theory and research on culture, development, and mental health to improve the lives of Latinx children, youth, and families, especially Panamanian. He has employed systematic reviews and meta-analyses to document the link between risk, protective, and promotive factors in the development of psychopathology, including familism values, racial discrimination, and ethnic neighborhood concentration. He has examined the role of rituals and celebrations during the pandemic and developmental transitions, and their link to mental health, including graduations and funerals. He has co-edited several handbooks and special issues in journals such as American Psychologist, Cultural Development and Ethnic Minority Psychology, Development and Psychopathology, and Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology. In 2025, he was named Salzburg Global scholar.

Selected Publications

Causadias, J. M. (2025). Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in the United States. Cambridge University Press. ISBN: 9781009098151

Causadias, J. M., & Neblett, E. W. (2024). PARQUES: Dreaming a future for our Latinx children, youth, and families. Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology, 53(1), 129-140. https://doi.org/10.1080/15374416.2024.2304140

Tyrell, F., Neville, H. A., Causadias, J. M., Cokley, K., & Adams-Wiggins, K. (2023). Reclaiming the past and transforming our future: Introduction to the special issue on foundational contributions of Black scholars in psychology. American Psychologist, 78(4), 367–375. https://doi.org/10.1037/amp0001170

Causadias, J. M., Alcalá, L., Morris, K. S., Yaylaci, F. T., & Zhang, N. (2022). Future directions on BIPOC youth mental health: The importance of cultural rituals in the COVID-19 pandemic. Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology, 51(4), 577-592. https://doi.org/10.1080/15374416.2022.2084744

Cahill, K. M., Updegraff, K. A., Causadias, J. M., & Korous, K. M. (2021). Familism values and adjustment among Hispanic/Latino individuals: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Psychological Bulletin, 147(9), 947-985. https://doi.org/10.1037/bul0000336

Causadias, J. M. (2020). What is culture? Systems of people, places, and practices. Applied Developmental Science, 24(4), 310-322. https://doi.org/10.1080/10888691.2020.1789360

Causadias, J. M. (2013). A roadmap for the integration of culture into developmental psychopathology. Development and Psychopathology, 25(4pt2), 1375-1398. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954579413000679

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In this episode, Radia DeLuna, Salman Safir, and Helen Neville speak with Dr. Devin Atallah about his decolonial and liberation psychology praxis. Together, they explore grief, hope, and possibility for Palestinians amidst ongoing genocide. This deep and moving conversation delves into love, loss, and the power of storytelling, highlighting how our stories root us in history while inspiring us to imagine and build just futures. We reflect on the idea of future as a weapon. You won't want to miss it.

ABOUT THE GUEST

Dr. Devin George Atallah is an Associate Professor in the Psychology Department at the University of Massachusetts Boston (https://www.umb.edu/directory/devinatallah/). Dr. Atallah is also currently a Research Fellow with the Institute for Social and Health Sciences at the University of South Africa. Dr. Atallah is a multiracial Palestinian living in the shataat (diaspora) who strives to engage decolonial and community-based approaches to critical inquiry. Dr. Atallah's scholarship focuses on Palestinian grief and revolutionary love, intergenerational healing and decolonial resistance.

GUEST SELECTED WORK

Atallah, D.G. (2025). Future is a weapon. Social Text Online, Palestine Now dossier. https://socialtextjournal.org/periscope_article/future-is-a-weapon/.

Atallah, D. G., Abu-Rayyan, N. M., Masud, H. R., & Hakim, C. (2025). Supervision as decolonial love: Toward a transformative training process for Palestinian community health workers. American Psychologist, 80(4), 563–575. https://doi.org/10.1037/amp0001364

Atallah, D.G. (forthcoming). Resisting the "empirical" empire: Reclaiming Palestinian knowing in a time of scholasticide. PINS-Psychology in Society.

Atallah, D.G. & Abu-Jamei, Y. (2025). Re-thinking trauma against a genocidal world: Palestinian healing is a sound of our victory. Journal of Palestine Studies, 54(1), 51–61. https://doi.org/10.1080/0377919X.2025.2481819

Atallah, D.G. & Awartani, H. (2024). Embodying homeland: Palestinian grief and the perseverance of beauty in a time of genocide. Journal of Palestine Studies, 53 (1), 137-145. https://doi.org/10.1080/0377919X.2024.2344419

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Episode Production: Helen Neville, Salman Safir, Radia DeLuna

In this episode, Helen Neville speaks with Dr. Mary Frances Berry and Dr. Sundiata Cha-Jua about their powerful new edited collection (with V.P. Franklin), Reparations and Reparatory Justice: Past, Present, and Future. Listen in to explore the global fight for reparations, uncover pivotal moments in the U.S. movement, and hear bold visions of what justice, liberation, and healing could truly look like for African Americans.

ABOUT THE GUESTS

Mary Frances Berry is the Geraldine R. Segal Professor of American Social Thought at the University of Pennsylvania where she teaches American legal and African American history in the Department of History. In 1984, Berry co-founded the Free South Africa Movement. From 1993–2004, she chaired the US Commission of Civil Rights. She has served as the chancellor at the University of Colorado at Boulder and interim provost for the Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences at the University of Maryland (1976–1977). She is the author of numerous award-winning books, including Black Resistance/White Law: A History of Constitutional Racism in America (1971, expanded ed. 1994) and My Face Is Black Is True: Callie House and the Struggle for Ex-Slave Reparations (2005), and most recently Slavery After Slavery: Revealing the Legacy of Forced Child Apprenticeships on Black Families, from Emancipation to the Present(2025). She has received 37 honorary doctoral degrees and many awards, including the NAACP's Roy Wilkins Award, the Rosa Parks Award of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and the Ebony Magazine Black Achievement Award.

Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua teaches in the departments of African American Studies and History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He authored America's First Black Town, Brooklyn, Illinois, 1830–1915(2000), co-edited Race Struggles (University of Illinois Press, 2009) with Theodore Koditschek and Helen Neville. Cha-Jua has published scores of articles in leading Black/Africana Studies, History, and Left journals, including "The Long Movement' as Vampire: Temporal and Spatial Fallacies in Recent Black Freedom Studies" in the Journal of African American History which co-won the OAH EBSCOhost America: History and Life Award for the best journal article in United States History between 2007-2009. Cha-Jua was President of the National Council for Black Studies, 2010–12, 2012–14; Senior Editor of The Black Scholar, 2011–15; and Associate Editor of the Journal of African American History, 2015–18. He is serving his third 3-year elected term on the Executive Council of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History. He writes a bi-weekly column, "RealTalk: A Black Perspective" for the Champaign News Gazette, hosts a bi-weekly podcast, "RealTalk: History as a Weapon for Black Liberation" on the Black Liberation Media network.

SELECTED WORKS BY THE GUESTS

Mary Frances Berry

• Berry, M. F. (1971). Black resistance/White law: A history of constitutional racism in America.
• Berry, M. F. (1984). Why ERA failed: Politics, women's rights, and the amending process of the Constitution.
• Berry, M. F. (1993). The politics of parenthood: Child care, women's rights, and the myth of the good mother.
• Berry, M. F. (1996). The pig farmer's daughter and other tales of American justice: Episodes of racism and sexism in the courts from 1865 to the present.
• Berry, M. F. (2005). My face is black is true: Callie House and the struggle for ex‑slave reparations.
• Berry, M. F. (2009). And justice for all: The United States Commission on Civil Rights and the struggle for freedom in America.
• Berry, M. F. (2016). Five dollars and a pork chop sandwich: Vote buying and the corruption of democracy.
• Berry, M. F. (2018). History teaches us to resist: How progressive movements have succeeded in challenging times.
• Berry, M. F. (2025). Slavery after slavery: Revealing the legacy of forced child apprenticeships on Black families, from emancipation to the present.

Sundiata Cha-Jua

• Cha‑Jua, S. K. (2000). America's First Black Town: Brooklyn, Illinois, 1830–1915.
• Koditschek, T., Cha‑Jua, S. K., & Neville, H. A. (Eds.). (2009). Race struggles.
• Cha‑Jua, S. K., Berry, M. F., & Franklin, V. P. (Eds.). (2024). Reparations and Reparatory justice: Past, present, and future.
• RealTalk: History as a Weapon for Black Liberation with Dr. Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua a biweekly podcast on YouTube and Black Liberation Media.

SELECTED REPARATIONS GROUPS

• N'COBRA (National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America)
• H.R. 40; Commission to Study and Develop Reparations Proposals for African Americans Act
• Malcolm X Grassroots Movement (MXGM)
• CARICOM Reparations Commission
• National Reparations Network

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Episode Intro/Outro: Helen Neville

Episode Editing: Helen Neville

Episode Transcript: bit.ly/LibNowE17

In this episode, Helen Neville and B. Andi Lee speak with Dr. Matthew Miller about storytelling as liberation. Dr. Miller shares his personal journey and the origin story of the SPOKENproject, which promotes coping with, resisting, surviving, and healing from racism through storytelling. Listen in to explore the transformative power of storytelling—and get inspired to integrate it into your own life and work.

ABOUT THE GUEST

Matthew J. Miller (he/him) is a cisgender heterosexual Korean American male who has spent the latter half of his life trying to understand the many ways in which he has participated in and perpetuated white supremacy, anti-Blackness, racism, and interrelated systems of oppression including sexism, heterosexism, classism, ableism, and toxic masculinity. He is a Professor of Counseling Psychology at Loyola University Chicago where he directs the Race, Culture, and Health Equity Collective and is working to develop the unLEARNING podcast. He is also a filmmaker and the creator of SPOKEN project, a series of first-person narrative documentary style videos designed to help people cope with racism and also provide experiences of validation, support, and healing. He is currently working on a documentary film featuring the Psychology of Radical Healing Collective and another film about the educational legacy of Mamie Till-Mobley.

RESOURCES AND SELECT RESEARCH BY MATTHEW J. MILLER

SPOKENproject: https://www.youtube.com/c/SPOKENproject/featured

Keum, B. T., & Miller, M. J. (2017). Racism in the digital era: Development and initial validation of the Perceived Online Racism Scale (PORS v1.0). Journal of Counseling Psychology, 64(3), 310-324. https://doi.org/10.1037/cou0000200

Keum, B. T., & Miller, M. J. (2020). Social justice interdependence among students in counseling psychology training programs: Group actor-partner interdependence model of social justice attitudes, training program norms, advocacy intentions, and peer relationships. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 67(2), 141-153. https://doi.org/10.1037/cou0000394

Keum, B. T., & Miller, M. J. (2018). Racism on the Internet: Conceptualization and recommendations for research. Psychology of Violence, 8(6), 782-789. https://doi.org/10.1037/vio0000233

Miller, M. J., Keum, B. T., Thai, C. J., Lu, Y., Truong, N. N., Huh, G. A., ... & Ahn, L. H. (2018). Practice recommendations for addressing racism: A content analysis of the counseling psychology literature. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 65(6), 669-684. https://doi.org/10.1037/cou0000301

Miller, M. J., Jungeun Kim, Grace A. Chen, & Alvin N. Alvarez. (2012). Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses of the Asian American Racism-Related Stress Inventory. Assessment, 19(1), 53-64. https://doi.org/10.1177/1073191112456407

Pieterse, A. L., Lewis, J. A., & Miller, M. J. (2023). Dismantling and eradicating anti-Blackness and systemic racism. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 70(3), 235-249. https://doi.org/10.1037/cou0000799

SELECTED RESOURCES ON STORYTELLING AS LIBERATION

Bell, L. A. (2020). Storytelling for social justice: Connecting narrative and the arts in antiracist teaching. Routledge.

Dutta, U. (2023). Reimagining the politics of belonging through counterstorytelling: A decolonial praxis of refusal and desire. Qualitative Inquiry, 29(5), 539-550. https://doi.org/10.1177/10778004221118690

Fernández, J. S. (2022). A Mujerista Liberation Psychology perspective on testimonio to cultivate decolonial healing. Women & Therapy, 45(2-3), 131-156.

Hayvon, J. C. (2024). Assessing inequalities in storytelling & narrative media: Conceptualizing a Freirean methodology. Critical Studies in Media Communication, 41(5), 476-489.

OrigiNatives Storytelling Project. (n.d.). https://www.jillianfish.com/originatives

Solnit, R. (2020). Storytelling and the work of justice: What do they have to do with each other? Greenpeace. https://storytelling.greenpeace.org/story/1699/storytelling-and-the-work-of-justice-what-do-they-have-to-do-with-each-other

Storytelling and Social Change: A Strategy Guide. (n.d.). Narrative Arts. https://narrativearts.org/story-guide/

Toliver, S. R. (2021). Recovering Black storytelling in qualitative research: Endarkened storywork. Routledge.

Voice of Witness. (2020). Say it forward: A guide to social justice storytelling. Voice of Witness. https://voiceofwitness.org/books/say-it-forward/

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Episode Intro: Helen Neville

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Episode Editing: Helen Neville

Episode Transcript: bit.ly/LibNowEp16

In this episode, Helen Neville and Radia DeLuna speak with psychologist Dr. Em Matsuno about the meaning and importance of trans and nonbinary joy to wellbeing and liberation. Dr. Matsuno shares insights from their research highlighting the strengths, resilience, and joy found within trans and nonbinary communities. Listen in to learn more about research and community practices celebrating joy among trans and nonbinary youth, families, and adults.

ABOUT THE GUEST

Dr. Em Matsuno (they/them) is an assistant professor in Counseling and Counseling Psychology at Arizona State University. Dr. Matsuno's primary research goals are (1) to understand the minority stressors and resilience factors that Two-Spirt, Trans, and Nonbinary (2STNB) people experience and (2) to develop and test interventions to reduce minority stressors and/or increase resilience factors for 2STNB people. Dr. Matsuno leads the EMpowerment lab, which aims to uplift, center, and empower Two-spirit, trans, and nonbinary (2STNB) people as scholars, researchers, practitioners, activists, and healers within the field of psychology. Dr. Matsuno is active within the Society of Counseling Psychology (SCP). They were the chair of the Early Career Professionals (ECP) committee within Division 17 and are on the editorial board for the Journal of Counseling Psychology.

Empowerment Lab Instagram: @empowerment_lab_asu

EMpowerment Lab webpage

SELECTED RESOURCES

Articles

• Austin, A., Papciak, R., & Lovins, L. (2022). Gender euphoria: A grounded theory exploration of experiencing gender affirmation. Psychology & Sexuality, 13(5), 1406–1426.

• Flynn, S. S., Touhey, S., Sullivan, T. R., & Mereish, E. H. (2024). Queer and transgender joy: A daily diary qualitative study of positive identity factors among sexual and gender minority adolescents. Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity. Advance online publication.

• Matsuno, E., & Israel, T. (2018). Psychological interventions promoting resilience among transgender individuals: Transgender resilience intervention model (TRIM). The Counseling Psychologist, 46(5), 632-655.

• Pease, M V., Kang, N., Oluwakemi, G., Jin, L., Bradshaw, B., & Le, T. P. (2024). "It's like having a superpower": Reclaiming creativity and the intersectional experiences of trans young adults of color.Journal of Counseling Psychology, 71(4), 215–228.

• Shuster, S. M., & Westbrook, L. (2022). Reducing the joy deficit in sociology: A study of transgender joy. Social Problems, spac034.

Workbooks, Guides, and Other Resources

• Singh, A. A. (2018). The queer and transgender resilience workbook: Skills for navigating sexual orientation and gender expression. New Harbinger Publications.

• The FOLX Trans Joy Guide

• EMpowerment Lab Resource Page

Webinars

• Affirmative Therapy with Trans and Nonbinary Clients an APA Division 17 Webinar with Drs. Em Matsuno and Sebastian Barr

• "It Feels Like Everyone is Coming For Us": Supporting Trans and Nonbinary Clients in Hostile Environments an APA Division 17 Webinar with Drs. Em Matsuno and Sebastian Barr

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Editing: Helen Neville

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In this episode, Helen Neville speaks with psychologists Drs. Roxanne Donovan, Grace Kim, and Karen Suyemoto about teaching for social justice in these challenging times. The authors share insights from their two books, Teaching Diversity Relationally and Unraveling Assumptions, both published by Routledge. They discuss psychological and social justice frameworks to teaching and learning about power, privilege, oppression, and resistance and they end with thoughts about practicing hope and engaging in self-care strategies amid domestic and global geopolitical crises.

ABOUT THE GUESTS

Dr. Roxanne A. Donovan is a licensed psychologist, certified yoga teacher, and Professor of Psychological Sciences at Kennesaw State University. She writes, presents, and teaches on topics of well-being and social justice. Her work has been featured in The Washington Post, The Conversation, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Georgia Public Radio, and other media outlets.

Her two coauthored books, Teaching Diversity Relationally and Unraveling Assumptions, apply psychological and structural perspectives to the teaching and learning of diversity.

Her popular Wellness Wednesday newsletter focuses on helping faculty of color and other scholars design purpose-driven lives of meaning, fulfillment, and vitality.

Integrated with her professional identities are her rich and multilayered roles as spouse, mama, sister, and auntie.

Linked in: linkedin.com/in/roxannedonovan

Dr. Grace S. Kim is a clinical professor and chair of the Counseling Psychology & Applied Human Development Department at Boston University, Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. Dr. Kim was trained in clinical psychology and researches social justice education and Asian American psychology. She explores how students understand the meanings of diversity; how to teach diversity and social justice effectively; and how to train future professionals to be more culturally humble and responsive. She also focuses on resilience and the mental health of Asian Americans, centering their struggles for liberation, social agency, and solidarity with other marginalized groups.

Dr. Kim is the co-author of two books, Unraveling Assumptions: A Primer for Understanding Oppression and Privilege, and Teaching Diversity Relationally: Engaging Emotions and Embracing Possibilities. She is a fellow of the American Psychological Association (Divisions 35 & 45) and the Asian American Psychological Association. She is the recipient of the 2023 Boston University Provost's Scholar-Teacher of the Year award.

Linked in: www.linkedin.com/in/grace-s-kim-75600a8

Instagram: @drgraceskim

Karen L. Suyemoto is Professor of Clinical Psychology and Asian American Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. Her teaching, research, and consultations focus on processes and effects of resisting oppression, how racism affects mental health for Asian Americans, and the promotion of organizational change to advance anti-racism and social justice in the academy, and psychological and community organizations. Her recent co-authored books Unraveling Assumptions: A primer for understanding oppression and privilege and Teaching diversity relationally aim to promote conscientization and social justice action for university and community members.

Dr. Suyemoto has served as the Chair of the American Psychological Association's Task Force for the Guidelines for Race and Ethnicity in Psychology, as President of the Asian American Psychological Association (AAPA), and as AAPA's delegate to the American Psychological Association Council of Representatives. Her expertise as an educator has been recognized through multiple awards, including the Toy Caldwell-Colbert Award for Distinguished Educator in Clinical Psychology and the Outstanding Teaching and Mentoring Award from the Society for Psychology Study of Social Issues. Nominated by her students and colleagues, she was recognized as a White House Champion of Change: Asian American Pacific Islander Women under the Obama administration.

SELECTED RESOURCES

Authors' Books:

Kim, G. S., Donovan, R. A., & Suyemoto, K. L. (2022). Teaching diversity relationally: Engaging emotions and embracing possibilities. Routledge.

Suyemoto, K. L., Donovan, R. A., & Kim, G. S. (2022). Unraveling assumptions: A primer for understanding oppression and privilege. Routledge.

Other Books:

Pope, K. S., Chavez-Dueñas, N. Y., Adames, H. Y., Sonne, J. L., & Greene, B. A. (2023). Speaking the unspoken: Breaking the silence, myths, and taboos that hurt therapists and patients. American Psychological Association.

Sue, D. W. (2016). Race talk and the conspiracy of silence: Understanding and facilitating difficult dialogues on race. John Wiley & Sons.

Online Resources:

• Guidelines for Discussing Difficult or High Stakes Topics by University of Michigan Center for Research on Learning and Teaching
• Let's Talk: Discussing Race, Racism, and Other Difficult Topics with Students by Learning for Justice
• Rethinking Schools
• Teach Palestine: A project of the Middle East Children's Alliance
• Teaching about Race and Racism in College Classrooms by Cyndi Kernahan
• Visualizing Palestine 101: A Visual Resource and Educational Hub
• Zinn Education Project

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Music: Amir Maghsoodi and Briana Williams

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Episode Editing: Helen Neville

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In this episode, Salman Safir and Helen Neville speak with internationally recognized psychology and mental health scholar Dr. Joseph Gone. We cover topics related to decolonizing and Indigenous research methodologies and reclaiming American Indian therapeutic traditions. In this conversation, Dr. Gone outlines attributes of traditional knowledge, disrupts ideas about psychological mindset, discusses how some forms of counseling is ideological work, and complicates our understanding of collaborative partnerships.

ABOUT THE GUEST

Joseph P. Gone (website) is an international expert in the psychology and mental health of American Indians and other Indigenous peoples. A professor at Harvard University, Dr. Gone has collaborated with tribal communities for over 25 years to critique conventional mental health services and harness traditional culture and spirituality for advancing Indigenous well-being. He has published over 100 scientific articles and chapters, and received recognition in his fields through several fellowships and career awards, including a year-long residency at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University. A graduate of Harvard College and the University of Illinois, Dr. Gone also trained at Dartmouth College and McLean Hospital/Harvard Medical School. He is currently a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science, and of seven divisions of the American Psychological Association (APA). An enrolled member of the Aaniiih-Gros Ventre Tribal Nation of Montana, he also served briefly as the Chief Administrative Officer for the Fort Belknap Indian reservation. In 2014, Gone was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. In 2021 he received the APA Award for Distinguished Professional Contributions to Applied Research and was elected to the National Academy of Medicine.

DR. JOSEPH GONE - SELECTED SCHOLARSHIP

Articles Mentioned in this Podcast:

Gone, J. P. (2021). Decolonization as methodological innovation in counseling psychology: Method, power, and processin reclaiming American Indian therapeutic traditions. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 68(3), 259-270.

Gone, J. P. (2019). Considering Indigenous research methodologies: Critical reflections by an Indigenous knower. Qualitative Inquiry, 25(1), 45-56.

Video referred to in article:

Citation: Gone, J. P. (2014, October). Considering Indigenous research methodologies: Critical reflections by anIndigenous knower. Invited keynote address for the 2014 Meeting of the American Indigenous Research Association, Salish Kootenai College, Pablo, MT.

Link to Video

Additional Articles:

Gone, J. P. (2022). Indigenous research methodologies: X-marks in the age of community accountability and protection. Qualitative Inquiry, 28(2), 164-170.

Gone, J. P. (2022). Re-imagining mental health services for American Indian communities: Centering Indigenousperspectives. American Journal of Community, 69(3-4), 257-268.

Gone, J. P. (2022). Four principles for cultivating Alternate Cultural Paradigms in psychology: Summary reflections oninnovative contributions. Journal of Humanistic Psychology, 62(4), 614-623.

Gone, J. P. (2021). Recounting coup as the recirculation of Indigenous vitality: A narrative alternative to historicaltrauma. Transcultural Psychiatry. Advance online publication.

Gone, J. P. (2021). The (post)colonial predicament in community mental health services for American Indians: Explorations in alter-Native psy-ence. American Psychologist, 76(9), 1514-1525.

Gone, J. P. (2019). "The thing happened as he wished": Recovering an American Indian cultural psychology. American Journal of Community Psychology, 64(1-2), 172-184.

Gone, J. P. (2017)."It felt like violence": Indigenous knowledge traditions and the postcolonial ethics of academicinquiry and community engagement. American Journal of Community Psychology, 60(3-4), 353-360.

Gone, J. P. (2016). Alternative knowledges and the future of community psychology: Provocations from an American Indian healing tradition. American Journal of Community Psychology, 58(3-4), 314-321.

"Looking ahead, informed by where he's been." Interview with Dr. Gone, published in The Harvard Gazette in 2019.

Videos:

Gone, J. P. (2021, June). Challenges to evidence-based practice in Indigenous community mental health. Invitedvirtual workshop presentation, Summer Institute in Indigenous Mental Health Research, Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry, McGill University, Montreal, QC.

Link to Video

Gone, J. P. (2021, February). The Urban American Indian Traditional Spirituality Program: Community engagement andcultural adaptation in Indigenous health. Invited virtual presentation, Proseminar in Social Medicine, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.

Link to Video

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In this episode, Helen Neville speaks with Iranian American scholar-activists Dr. Mehrgol Tiv and Amir Maghsoodi about the current uprisings in Iran. We cover the nationwide protests and state responses since the murder of Mahsa Jina Amini on September 22, 2022. The guests provide context for the roots of the women-led liberation struggle, and the goals and hopes for Iran and her people.

This episode was recorded on Nov 29, 2022. Since then, the Islamic Republic government has executed two young men for taking part in protests: Mohsen Shekari and Majidreza Rahnavard. As of late-December, Amnesty International and others fear more individuals are at imminent risk of execution by the government.

ABOUT THE GUESTS

Dr. Mehrgol Tiv, PhD (website) (Twitter: @mehrgoltiv) earned her PhD in experimental psychology at McGill University in 2021, where she examined how diverse linguistic experiences related to cognitive processes. Now as a postdoctoral researcher, she further probes the social determinants of cognitive adaptation by assessing the psychological impacts of context diversity and racial identity formation, including among Middle Eastern and North African communities. Mehrgol was born in Tehran, Iran and moved to the United States at the age of six with her family. She grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and now lives in Washington D.C. with her partner and cat.

Amir Maghsoodi, MS (website) (Twitter and IG: @soori_breeze) is a doctoral candidate in his fifth year in the Counseling Psychology Program at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. His interests in psychology center on health and well-being, sense of belonging, and radical healing & liberation of BIPOC folx, with a particular focus on those of MENA/SWANA descent. His mixed-methods dissertation research explores the psychological impacts of racial identity invalidation on MENA Americans (e.g., our legal classification as "white" in the U.S.). He enjoys service to the community and currently serves on the advocacy committee of the American Arab, Middle Eastern, & North African Psychological Association (AMENA-Psy) and on Dr. Kevin Cokley's Division 45 Presidential Task Force on Cross-Racial/Ethnic Solidarity.

RESOURCES

News and Editorials

• BBC reporting of first known execution of Iranian protestors
• CNN coverage of human rights abuses in political prisons
• Hamed Esmaeilion memoir in Toronto Life magazine
• Association of Families of PS752 Victims
• CBC Interview with dissident rapper Toomaj Salehi the day before his kidnapping by Islamic Republic police forces
• Washington Post documents Islamic Republic's tactics of repression
• Human Rights Activists in Iran (HRANA) Daily Update on Iran Protest

Videos

• VICE documentary, part 1
• VICE documentary, part 2

Protest Songs

• Baraye ("For") by Shervin Hajipour (turn on English subtitles)
• Amir Maghsoodi's cover of Baraye
• Soroode Zan ("Women's Anthem") by Mehdi Yarrahi and Mona Borzouie (Translated lyrics)
• YouTube page of dissident rapper Toomaj Salehi, who was kidnapped, tortured, and faces execution in Iran
• Farsi rendition of Italian protest song, Bella Ciao, played in many global protests and rallies

Relevant Social Media Accounts (mostly Twitter) to Follow

Twitter

• https://twitter.com/1500tasvir_en
• https://twitter.com/Vahid
• https://twitter.com/BlackIranians
• https://twitter.com/PriscilliaK
• https://twitter.com/sinafazelpour
• https://twitter.com/NazaninNour
• https://twitter.com/maasalan
• https://twitter.com/esmaeilion
• https://twitter.com/ps752justice
• https://twitter.com/me_too_iran
• https://twitter.com/MEMOrganization
• https://twitter.com/HRANA_English

Instagram

• https://www.instagram.com/1500tasvir_en/
• https://www.instagram.com/collectiveforblackiranians/
• https://www.instagram.com/from____iran/
• https://www.instagram.com/centerforhumanrights/
• https://www.instagram.com/middleeastmatters/
• https://www.instagram.com/localbrownbaby/
• https://www.instagram.com/womanlifefreedom.art/

Academic Statements and Correspondences

• AMENA-Psy statement of solidarity with the people of Iran
• SPSSI statement of solidarity with the people of Iran
• Psychology Coalition at the UN (PCUN) letter to Economic and Social Committee (ECOSOC) of the UN
• American Psychological Association's letter to UN High Commissioner of Human Rights
• American Psychiatric Association's letter to the UN High Commissioner of Human Rights
• Correspondence to Nature by Iranian scholars calling for support of persecuted academic

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Episode Intro: Mahogany Monette

Episode Outro: B. Andi Lee

Episode Editing: Helen Neville and Amir Maghsoodi

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