This week, we are lucky to have Northeastern University professor, Dr. Tracy Robinson-Wood, and her student, Ruthann Hewett, join us to talk about Mental Health Prowess in Perilous Times. They are both involved in some deeply interesting -- and deeply important -- work, so please take the time to read their bios below.

 

Prior to Friday's discussion, you may also consider taking a look at the following video (~1hr and 40min). This is a discussion between Dr. Robinson-Wood and her colleague at Northeastern, Dr. Kristen Lee, moderated by Boston Globe columnist Renee Graham.:

Dr. Robinson-Wood Bio:

Since 2002, Dr. Tracy Robinson-Wood has been professor of Applied Psychology at Northeastern University. Prior to Northeastern, she was a professor in the Department of Counselor Education at North Carolina State University. A native of Sacramento, California, she received her Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and Communication Arts from Azusa Pacific University in Azusa, CA. Her EdM and EdD are in Human Development and Psychology from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Dr. Robinson-Wood’s research interests focus on the intersectionality of race, gender, sexuality, and class. She developed the Resistance Modality Inventory (RMI), a psychometrically valid measure of resistance. The fifth edition of her textbook, The Convergence of Race, Ethnicity, and Gender: Multiple Identities in Counseling was released in 2016.

 

She and Dr. Janie Ward co-developed a theory of Resistance to provide black girls, teens, and women with the tools and strategies to optimally push back against gendered racism and other forms of oppression. Their manuscript for the text, Sister Resisters: Black Women in College will be submitted in July 2020 and will be published by Harvard Education Press.

 

Dr. Robinson-Wood is a licensed clinician in Massachusetts and in New Hampshire where she resides with her husband, twin daughters, and their love birds.

 

 

Ruthann Hewett:

Ruthann Hewett is a second year Master's student in the Counseling Psychology program at Northeastern University, graduating this month with a concentration in Cultural, Gender, & Political Psychology. She is interested in examining processes of acculturation, identity development, and religious disaffiliation among immigrants and refugees from a decolonial, anti imperialist framework.