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About the Conference Format and Accessibility
The conference will be offered through Zoom and our online platform. It includes live presentations on Zoom as well as asynchronous presentations through the online platform. The live portion of the conference will be held on November 7 from 8:30 AM to 6:30 PM. The asynchronous portions will be available beginning the day of the conference. An archived version of the live presentations will be added to the online platform within 7-10 days after the conference.

Keynote Speaker: Dr. Theopia Jackson
President, Association of Black Psychologists
Chair, Clinical Psychology Degree Program & Faculty, Saybrook University
“So What Woke You Up? Critical Conversations about Anti-Racism with
Humanistic Practitioners”

Invited Presentations

• “1619” (Poem) by Aliya Granger
• “Reflecting on 2020: Social Justice, Advocacy, and Psychology”—Apryl Alexander, PsyD, University of
  Denver
• “Towards Holism in Psychology: Examining the Need for a Socioecological Justice Praxis as a
  Seventh Force” —Derrick Sebree, Jr., PsyD, Michigan School of Psychology
• “Reflect…Revise…Relate and Respond….”—Terri Davis, PhD, University of Denver
• “A Humanistic-Examination of the Intersection of Race and Universal Suffering: The Impact of
  COVID-19” —Nathaniel Granger, Jr., PsyD, RMHCPA
• “Existential Psychology, White Privilege, and Racial Gaslighting”—Louis Hoffman, PhD, RMHCPA
  Award Recipients & Presentations
• Early Career Award: Lisa Xochitl Vallejos, Naropa University & RMHCPA. Talk: “8 Things Graduate
  School Didn’t Teach You About Anti-Racist Therapy that You Need to Know”
• Lifetime Achievement Award: Thomas Pyszczynski, PhD, University of Colorado at Colorado
  Springs, Talk: “A Terror Management Theory Perspective on Prejudice, Hatred, and Intergroup
  Conflict and Strategies for Reducing the Hate”
• Humanistic Exemplar Award: Sandy Sela-Smith, PhD, Talk “Title: Following the Beat of a Different
  Drum: The Embodied Humanistic Path That Transformed My Life and Work”