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Winter/Spring 2019 A Feminist Voice Since 1969 ASSOCIATION FOR WOMEN IN PSYCHOLOGY Spring Issue, June 5, 2019, Yuki Okubo, Newsletter Editor INSIDE THIS ISSUE: C O -C O ’ S C ORNER BY S HARON S IEGEL Co-Co’s Corner 1-2 Good day AWPers. Warm greetings to you Introducing new IMPs 3-4 from hot Palm Springs, California. I know many of you have suffered through an extra- Older Women’s 4-5 long and uncomfortable (to say the least) Caucus Report winter. I wish you well! by Leonore Tiefer UN Report 6-7 I am having a delightful time reflecting on the by Maram Hallak 2019 AWP conference — “Gold, Bold and More to Be Told: Our Feminist Journey” at Sex Roles Latest 7 by Jan Yoder Gurney’s Newport Resort & Marina in Rhode Island. Thank you so much Kat Quina, Mary AWP 2019 Report by 8-9 Zahn and your many volunteers, for this Kat Quina & Mary creative and outstanding conference. We Zahm happily joined with you to celebrate our 50th AWP 2019 Photos 10-12 anniversary as an organization at our 40th annual conference. Good cake! Special From Activism Caucus 13, thanks also to Leonore Tiefer and Gail Lloyd By Joan Chrisler & 16, Paula Kaplan 18- for “Stories from the Founding to the 50th,” a 19, & 17 minute video and timeline of conference 23 locations. Sharon Siegel Hot Topics 14 CoCo By Leah Sobel What fun, to surprise Mary Zahm with the Christine Ladd-Franklin Award, and then to Many ideas that will enhance our “We the Peoples” 15-16 immediately honor Mary Zahm and Kat organization have come from the 2019 by Mala Matacin Quina with the Doris Howard Lifetime conference, including but not limited to: Pride Month at PWQ 17 Achievement Award, previously offered only four times in 40 years! And this year, the determination of ways to AWP 2020 Conference 20-21 Rhode Island AWP collective established the teleconference or Skype conference By Sharon Lamb & Christine Blasey-Ford Woman of Courage plenaries to AWPers who cannot get Debra Mollen Award, and honored Blasey-Ford as an to conferences (we need more ideas); Editor’s Reflection 21 & important trail-blazer for feminists (not to reestablishment of the Student By Yuki Okubo 23 diminish the importance of Anita Hill and so Research Award, now Co-Chaired by many others!). Rebecca Smart and Yuying Tsong; Our Feminist Journey 22 reinvigoration of the Activism Caucus, By Marissa Lawrence It was so nice to connect with dear friends with Joan Chrisler and Paula Caplan PAW Call for 24 whom I see only once each year, to enhance at the helm; Submission relationships with early career professionals bringing a feminist lens to new AWP and many students from differing healing awards — acceptance by the AWP Call for Awards 25-27 professions. Professionally, I always benefit 2019 Business Meeting of the “Living from critical thinking, new research and Implementation 28 our Visions Award” honoring Susan feminist processes for moving forward in life. Collective Meeting Morrow; and, the “Christine Blasey- Minutes This conference was no exception! Ford Woman of Courage Page 2 Spring Issue, 2019 CO -CO ’S CORNER BY S HARON S IEGEL (CON’T) Award” (both to be electronically voted by The AWP Imps are working hard at many the AWP membership); tasks. We need help from the membership exploring new and creative ways to hold to handle various issues: the Strategic and strengthen our ties with the SPW Plan and (finalization of) Fiscal Policy need (APA’s Division 35) now that the Ad Hoc Committees or Task Forces for Implementation Collective decided to not completion. Please contact me if you can staff the APA Suite beginning in 2020 assist. (pending commentary and agreement by our membership); Changes coming: we will miss the “It was so nice ways to enhance participation, adding awesome and brilliant service to the AWP to connect with contacts, volunteering, and increasing Implementation Collective, by Riddhi Sandil dear friends AWP membership for our 2020 Austin, and Aliya Kahn, and soon to “roll-off” Texas, AWP conference, (“Sexual Nikolai Houston. We cannot thank you whom I see only Agency/Sexual Rights”); enough! Congratulations to AWP/SPW once each year, moving forward from #metoo, with Suite Coordinator Keely Hirsch on her to enhance political activism to address the recent marriage. And we now welcome popularization of misogynist standards. incoming Imps: Celina Whitmore, Mindy relationships Erchull and Fran Trotman. And the beat with early career We have an awesome group of goes on … professionals Implementation Collective members! In and many addition to adhering to their job descriptions, Bye for now dear AWP members. I hope each Imp is now committed to serving on your Summer time will be a time of students from actualizing your dreams and plans. differing healing annual AWP Conference Committees in the capacity most suited to their Imp positions. According to designs on ancient pottery, professions.” This is an important change in governance, cave frescoes and archeological evidence, when the sun is at its fiery best we women implemented because of the need for organizational memory as conference (especially women) “take care of business.” Sharon Siegel It’s time to move toward whatever we most planning takes place, and oftentimes because there are fewer onsite volunteers. Now desire. familiar with the Vieth website, Mary Zahn has stepped forward to help with 2020 Warm regards from conference registration and programming. To your Collective Coordinator, all: thank you for all who are involved, to Sharon others — please be in touch with the 2020 conference coordinators if you can volunteer. E MGAGING WITH OUR S OCIAL MEDIA OUTLETS Our new AWP Website AWP Facebook page: https://www.awpsych.org/ https://www.facebook.com/groups/29473119739/ Association for Women in Psychology Page 3 I NTRODUCING CELINA WHITMORE NEW W EBSITE /COMMUNICATIONS COORDINATOR My name is Celina Whitmore and I am excited to have just started my term as the IMP Communications and Website Coordinator for AWP. I received my Bachelor’s in Health Sciences at the University of Hartford (2015) and my Master’s Degree in Community Psychology at the University of New Haven (2017). Currently I work as a Resident Director at the University of Hartford in West Hartford, CT. I enjoy the work that I do and the meaningful relationships I get to build with my staff, students, and colleagues. I am passionate about understanding the school and college experiences of QTPOC in order to be an advocate and change agent for cultural shifts to make education more inclusive and welcoming for all students. As an IMP I’m hoping to bring new ideas and collaborations into the organization to make it a more welcoming place for diverse students, activists, and young professionals. In my free time I enjoy listening to audiobooks, interesting podcasts, gardening, Celina Whitmore physical exercise, and exploring trails and parks with my dog Penelope. Website/Communications Coordinator I NTRODUCING M INDY ERCHULL NEW TREASURER I am a Professor in the Department of Psychological Science at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, Virginia. I’m a social psychologist, and I do research on a diverse array of topics including the objectification and sexualization of women, feminist identity, division of labor and parenting, and education about and attitudes towards menstruation. I have been a member of AWP since 1997 when I was an undergraduate at Connecticut College. I’ve previously served as Co-Coordinator of the Researchers’ Caucus and as the Co- Coordinator for the SWP/SPW Featured Feminist Science Symposia Series. I’m excited to have my schedule and skills finally line up with an opening on the IMPs and look forward to beginning my term as treasurer in June. While I’m very familiar with AWP as a long-time member, I know that I’ll learn a lot more about the organization as an IMP, particularly as treasurer as finances are integrated through all aspects of the organization. Mindy Erchull Incoming Treasurer You can reach me at [email protected]. Page 4 Spring Issue, 2019 I NTRODUCING F RAN TROTMAN NEW WOMEN OF COLOR COORDINATOR Born and raised in Harlem, NYC, Dr. Fran Trotman received her PhD and M.Phil. in Counseling Psychology from Columbia University, and an M.S. in Ed. in Guidance and Counseling from C.U.N.Y. Dr. Trotman has been in private practice for over 40 years. Prior to that, she had been a teacher, school counselor, social worker, community organizer and activist. Dr. Trotman is currently retired from a Full Professorship at Monmouth University where she developed, directed, and founded and chaired the Graduate Program in Psychological Counseling. She is also a Fellow (div. 35, 44, &45) of the American Psychological Association (APA). She has many publications in the areas of counseling and psychotherapy, resilience, multicultural counseling, grand-mothering, and aging. She has numerous national and international professional presentations, publications and awards, including AWP’S Women Empowering Women’s Award, and APA’s (div. 35) Heritage Award. Fran Trotman Women of Color Coordinator OLDER WOMEN ’S CAUCUS REPORT FROM NEWPORT , 2019 BY L EONORE TIEFER At the 2019 Rhode Island AWP Maureen McHugh Michele (and Curt) Wittig conference, the OWC decided to I want to live in a warm(er) climate I'm hoping to remain independent contribute a regular column to the near one of my daughters and/or for another 50 years in Santa newsletter in which we would, family, I am looking forward to a Monica, where I have access to briefly, share our thoughts and granddaughter this year (2019); she public transportation, am involved decisions about important issues will be born in Atlanta.
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