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Theopia Jackson, PhD, is a licensed clinical psychologist at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland in the Department of Psychiatry and the Healthy Hearts program. She is an executive faculty member at Saybrook University in San Francisco. In addition, she is the Bay Area chapter president and co-chair of Education & Training for the Association of Black Psychologists (ABPsi). At UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital, Dr. Jackson provides child, adolescent, and family therapy services; trains psychology practicum students, interns, and fellows; and specializes in serving populations coping with chronic illness and complex trauma. At Saybrook University, she teaches several clinical courses and supervises dissertation/master students; she served as the past Assistant Chair of Psychology and as the Assistant Academic Dean/Dean of Students. Dr. Jackson received her master's degree in psychology from Howard University in Washington, DC and a doctorate in clinical psychology from The Wright Institute in Berkeley, CA. She is a member of the Association of Family Therapists of Northern California (co-founding member of the Cultural Accountability Committee), American Psychological Association (Div 32 Society for Humanistic Psychology), Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. and board of directors for BayKids and medical advisory council for the Sickle Cell Community Advisory Council (SCCAC). Additionally, Dr. Jackson provides cultural competency workshops/seminars and has been invited to participate in several national and local initiatives intended to establish integrative health care that is culturally-attuned and linguistically responsive.  Dr.  Jackson is committed to serving children, adolescents, and their families in diverse settings with special interest in the adaptability of Western psychological theories/interventions within diverse multicultural contexts and the integration of cultural/creative healing practices.  Though psychodynamically trained, African-centered theory (Black psychology), multiculturalism, family systems theory, humanistic perspectives, relational theory/feminist thinking, and narrative approaches (social justice) inform her clinical practice.  Most importantly, Dr. Jackson is a wife, mother of 3, oldest of 6 from a single-parent household and a life learner who believes that professional knowledge both shapes and is shaped by community wisdom.

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Joseph Martin Stevenson is Provost at the Chicago School of Professional Psychology, our generous hosts. 

Dr. Stevenson most recently served as a Presidential Special Assistant at Little Priest Tribal College, and as Distinguished Scholar at Jackson State University. Dr. Stevenson has extensive administrative experience, having served as Provost, Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer at Mississippi Valley State University; Provost Vice President of Academic and Student Affairs at Jackson State University; and Campus Provost, and Campus Executive Officer at Golden Gate University's Sacramento Campus. He has also been a tenured professor at both Jackson State and Mississippi Valley, and has held the position of Eminent Scholar/Endowed Chair and Professor of Educational Leadership at Florida International University.

He holds a doctorate degree in  Educational Policy Management from the University of Oregon, Eugene with an emphasis on higher education; an M.S. in Curriculum and Instructional Leadership, both from the University of Oregon, and M.A. degrees in Social Science Education and Educational Administration, both from California State University, Sacramento.

Dr. Stevenson is founder of the world's only Executive Ph.D. in Urban Higher Education at Jackson State, and co-founder of the National Conference for STEM Women of Color at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author or co-author of 13 books including Hear and Now: Desk Guide for Administrative and Academic Decision Making With Higher Education Action Research (Academic Press, 2013). He has published numerous scholarly articles on the arts, the sciences and higher education leadership; and is a regular contributor to the opinion pages in The Chronicle of Higher Education and Diverse Issues in Higher Education. He has also been a Kellogg Leadership Fellow in the President’s Office at Howard University and is the recipient of the "Outstanding Leadership in Higher Education Award" given by the Thurgood Marshall Fund in Washington, D.C.

Kim Dell’Angela is an Associate Professor and Associate Department Chair of Operations for the APA accredited Doctoral program in Clinical Psychology at the Chicago Campus of The Chicago School of Professional Psychology and is a licensed psychologist in Illinois.  Her career has been spent in academic and medical settings as a teacher, clinician and leader. She has practiced as part of many integrated clinical teams in areas of chronic illness, alternative medicine, child protection, behavioral medicine and developmental disabilities and her  research, teaching and, program development has focused primarily on interdisciplinary models of care. Dr. Dell’Angela has served on numerous institutional, state and local research, education, program development and clinical teams focused on best practice in areas of emergency medicine, chronic illness, alternative medicine, child protection, behavioral medicine and developmental disabilities.

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