Meet the Authors
Danielle Dickens, PhD.
Associate Professor of Psychology
Spelman College, Atlanta GA
Dr. Danielle Dickens received her bachelor’s degree in psychology from Spelman College, and her master’s and doctorate degrees in applied social and health psychology from Colorado State University. Dr. Dickens is most interested in examining how Black women experience discrimination, utilization of identity shifting as a coping strategy, and the benefits and costs of identity shifting on Black women’s health. Her second line of research examines social-psychological determinants of academic and career development of Black women. She is a recipient of the 2019 American Psychological Association (APA) Division 35 Mary Roth Walsh Teaching the Psychology of Women Award and the 2020 APA Division 35 Section 1 Psychology of Black Women Mentorship Early Career Award.
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Dionne Stephens, PhD.
Professor of Psychology
Florida International University, Miami FL
Dr. Dionne Stephens earned her doctoral degree in Human Development from the University of Georgia. A health inequities scholar with a strong focus on social justice, her research explores cultural and contextual factors shaping BIPOC populations’ understandings of sexual health and how these perceptions influence decision-making processes across social contexts and popular culture spaces.
Dr. Stephens’s work has received wide recognition, including numerous prestigious awards such as the American Psychological Association’s (APA) Mid-Career Award for Multicultural Psychology, APA Black Women’s Foremothers’ Excellence in Mentorship Award, National Institutes of Health (NIH) Fogarty Global Health Equity Scholars Faculty Fellowship, and the National Institute for Teaching & Mentoring’s Faculty Mentor of the Year Award.
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