Diversity Project 2010 Summer Institute
Diversity Project 2000 and Beyond (DP2kB) Summer Institute
San Diego, California
August 10-13, 2010
DP2kB is a national leadership and mentoring program designed to prepare ethnic minority honor students attending community colleges for service in a global community. The mission of DP2kB is to encourage ethnic minority honor students at the community college level to become professional psychologists in the areas of practice, education or research. DP2kB was inspired by the sustained health disparity in psychology and the paucity of psychologists of color.
DP2kB occurs two days prior to and two days during the American Psychological Association (APA) convention, which is located in different areas of the United States each year. This year the convention is located in San Diego, California. Ethnic minority honor students from community colleges located in the San Diego area are encouraged to apply to the program and will receive small grants from the APA during their attendance. Students of color who meet the qualifications of the program, but are not attending a community college with a Psi Beta Chapter are also encouraged to apply. Psi Beta Council Members and Advisors who have qualified ethnic minority honor students are encouraged to find travel and lodging support for those students. A statement from a supporting Psi Beta Chapter or faculty advisor must accompany applications to the program from qualified ethnic minority honor students who are not attending community colleges in the San Diego area.
APPLICATION FORM
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION FROM APA
Additional Background Information on DP2kB
Dr. Tawa Witko, DP2kB alumna, 1994
“DP2kB changed my life and transformed me from a community college student to a PsyD level psychologist who is actively serving the American Indian community.”
Tawa M. Witko, PsyD, an Oglala Sioux, received her doctorate in clinical psychology, from the California School of Professional Psychology at Los Angeles. She is currently working for the United American Indian Involvement, Inc. in Los Angeles, where she provides individual and family counseling for urban Indians in addition to running the new domestic violence and sexual assault program (National Pathways to Healing). Dr. Witko served as Co-Director for DP2kB and was adjunct faculty at Fullerton Community College.
Dr. Orville Jackson, DP2kB alumnus, 1994
“I can’t describe what DP2kB did for me other than to say WOW. I met psychologists of color from all the country and I knew I wanted to become one of them. DP2kB inspired me to pursue a career in physiological psychology.”
Orville Jackson received his PhD from Harvard University in Physiological Psychology.
Sonali Gonzalez, DP2kB alumna, 2001
“I’m in my third year of serving as the Co-Director for DP2kB. This program has taught me what it means to be a leader and to mentor students of color who are interested in becoming professional psychologists.”
Sonali Gonzalez is a graduate student in the Master of Arts program in Community Counseling at Northern Arizona University. In addition, she is an Early Interventionist for Early Head Start in Phoenix, AZ where she works with infants, toddlers, and pregnant women who live in poverty. Sonali plans to enroll in a doctoral program in community counseling next fall where she hopes to gain the training and experience necessary to become a clinical psychologist.
Student participants can place the following on their curriculum vita:
Grant recipient to Diversity Project 2000 and Beyond, a national leadership and mentoring program co-sponsored by the American Psychological Association’s Office of Ethnic Minority Affairs, the Minority Fellowship Program, the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health, and Psi Beta.
DP2kB alumni have the opportunity to apply to co-direct the program after obtaining their advanced degrees in psychology.