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Dr. Jardin Dogan-Dixon is a licensed psychologist who currently works in a federal听correctional setting. She graduated from the counseling psychology doctoral program at听the University of Kentucky in 2022. Her intersectionality-informed research has a three-听pronged focus: 1) Black identity, racial trauma, and mental health; 2) Black sexualities,听sexual pleasure, and intimate relationships; and 3) drug and incarceration-related health听disparities. The objective of her research agenda is to demonstrate how racial trauma听can lead to adverse health outcomes, an overreliance on maladaptive coping strategies,听and relationship dissolution that hinders powerful and protective community-building听among Black populations. To date, Dr. Dogan-Dixon has published thirty-three (33)听scholarly manuscripts, and her work has been supported by a predoctoral fellowship听with the National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA), University of Kentucky Center for听Health Equity, and Active Minds. She has a commitment to treating race-related stress听and racial trauma via a multifaceted prevention and intervention approach of research,听clinical practice, and community work. Thus, her clinical experiences have taken place听in college counseling centers, racial trauma clinics, and criminal justice settings. She听recently completed her predoctoral internship at the Federal Medical Center in听Lexington, KY. Moving beyond academic research paywalls, Dr. Dogan-Dixon facilitates听mental health and racial trauma workshops for local communities and anti-racism听trainings for national organizations. Her work has been featured in media news outlets听including N51茶馆LX, Women鈥檚 Health, Vice, Bustle, and PsyCom. Dr. Dogan-Dixon also听created her Instagram platform @blkfolxtherapy to increase access to culturally-relevant听mental health education and heighten the visibility of Black mental health professionals.

Ultimately, Dr. Dogan-Dixon has goals of reducing mental health barriers and stigmas,听improving access to identity-affirming therapy, and providing Black Americans with tools听to improve their mental, sexual, and relational well-being to live meaningful and fulfilling听lives. In her spare time, Dr. Dogan-Dixon enjoys weightlifting, traveling, and calligraphy.

Terrill O. Taylor is a doctoral candidate in the Counseling Psychology program at the University of North Dakota, and a predoctoral intern at the Counseling and Mental Health Center at the University of Texas at Austin. His areas of research focus on issues of race and racism, with specific emphasis on intersectionality, racial disparities in systems of justice, anti-Black racism, and restorative justice.

He developed the听Restorative Justice Attitudes Scale, a measure designed to investigate individuals鈥� support for reconciliation and healing processes, which was published in听The Counseling Psychologist. He has since used the measure to analyze how race and racism influence individuals鈥� decision-making when interfaced with systems of justice. It is his intent to develop intervention and prevention mechanisms that will have an impact on dismantling all forms of racism and oppression that restrict Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) from living authentic, healthy, and meaningful lives.

Terrill鈥檚 research has received national recognition. His dissertation entitled,听Does Race Matter? An Experimental Vignette Study on Harm Severity, College Student Discipline, and Restorative Justice听was selected as winner of the 2022 Jeffrey S.听Tanaka听Memorial Dissertation award on behalf of the APA Committee on Ethnic Minority Affairs. Terrill also received the APA Division 45 2022 Outstanding Student Research Award, and he was also the 2020 recipient of the Barbara Smith & Jewell E. Horvat Graduate Student Award for Research on Queer Individuals of Color. In addition, Terrill received an Outstanding Dedication to Social Justice and Liberation in Counseling Psychology Award from the Student Affiliates of Seventeen (APA Division 17). In his spare time, Terrill enjoys traveling and spending time with his friends and family.听