Association for
Multicultural Counseling and Development 2020 Virtual Summit
Mentorship Through the Lens of Multiculturalism and Social
Justice (Advocacy)
June 24 & 25, 2020
10am-6:30pm EST
Register Today!
We are excited to host this
two-day exclusively virtual summit that will be accessible to you, wherever you
are! In addition to our two keynote presentations, there will be multiple
break-out sessions that will focus on the development, human rights, and
psychological health of ethnic/racial populations. Specifically, presentations
will focus on how these critical concepts relate to personal, social,
educational, political, and professional reforms of individuals within the
United States and globally. To this end, we will utilize innovative technology
that provides attendees with global perspectives from acclaimed international
and domestic scholars. The aim of the AMCD Virtual Summit is to foster
engagement among scholars, professionals, and students from a myriad of
counseling specialties and other related fields.
NBCC Approved Continuing Education (CE) credits will be
available.
Registration
Costs
Date
Students
Professionals
Before
May 16,
2020
$25
$100
After
May 16,
2020
$75
$150
Summit
Objectives
· To empower counseling educators, practitioners, trainees,
and related professionals across multiple disciplines with evidence and
theoretical based strategies and best practices for mentoring
racially/ethnically marginalized populations.
· To engage counseling educators, practitioners, trainees,
and related professionals in interdisciplinary dialogue related to mental
health disparities experienced by racially/ethically marginalized populations
and/or unique cultural groups.
· To disseminate scholarly research on mentoring and
leadership in an effort to promote equity, diversity, inclusion, and enhances
cross-cultural relationships.
· To disseminate scholarly research focused on racial,
ethnic, cultural, and linguistic concerns. Many of these prolific authors have
showcased their works in the Journal of Multicultural Counseling and
Development (JMCD).
· To disseminate scholarly research that embraces the Multicultural and Social Justice
Counseling Competencies (MSJCC; 2015) as a framework
for counseling, advocacy interventions, and building strong counseling
relationships.
Keynote
Sessions
We are thrilled to announce Edward
García Fierros, Ph.D as our morning keynote speaker and Dr.Kensa K.
Gunter, PsyD, CMPC as our afternoon keynote speaker on June 24th.
Dr. Edward García Fierros is an
Associate Professor and Associate Dean of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in
the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Villanova University. Dr. Fierros
completed his doctoral degree in Educational Research, Measurement, and
Evaluation at the Lynch School of Education at Boston College. He specializes
in large-scale data analyses. His major research interests are in the placement
of minority students with learning disabilities, opportunity to learn, Native
American education, and the theory of multiple intelligences. Fierros has
written numerous journal articles and is co-author of Kornhaber, Fierros, and
Veenema (2004), Multiple Intelligences: Best Ideas from Research and Practice.
Boston: Allyn & Bacon. For additional information on Dr. Edward García
Fierros, please visit https://www1.villanova.edu/villanova/artsci/education/facstaff/biodetail.html?mail=edward.fierros@villanova.edu&xsl=bio_long
Dr. Kensa K. Gunter is a licensed
psychologist and a Certified Mental Performance Consultant® (CMPC) through the
Association for Applied Sport Psychology (AASP). In her Atlanta-based private
practice, she works with athletes providing individual counseling and sport
psychology services. She has worked with athletes from individual and team
sports competing at high school, collegiate, and professional levels. Dr.
Gunter also provides consultation services to local organizations and serves as
the clinical sport psychologist for a Division-I athletic department and local
professional sport organizations. Dr. Gunter is passionate about helping
people, particularly related to enhancing mental performance and decreasing the
stigma around mental health. Dr. Gunter values cultural diversity and respects
the dignity and worth of all people. Knowing that culture impacts perception
and experience, in her work, she acknowledges the importance of individual
cultural identities as well as the cultural context(s) in which a person
performs and lives. She served as Division 47’s invited speaker for the Steven
R. Heyman Memorial Keynote Lecture at the 2018 APA Convention. Within AASP, she
presently serves as a member of the Diversity Committee and has previously
served on the Certification Review Committee, the Interim Certification
Council, and she was the Coordinator for the 2017 AASP-HBCU Regional
Conference. In 2019, Dr. Gunter was elected as President-Elect for AASP. She is
the first African-American person to hold this position. For additional information
on Dr. Kensa K. Gunter, please visit https://appliedsportpsych.org/about/executive-board/kensa-gunter-president-elect/
Questions regarding the AMCD
Virtual Summit can be directed to committee co-chairs Quiana Golphin (qgolphin@hotmail.com) or Jake Wheatley (jakewheatleylpc@gmail.com).
