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SERVICE (Selected Positions)

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American Psychological Association (APA) (FULL MEMBER)

  • Committee on Division/APA Relations (CODAPAR)
    • Co-chair, CODAPAR (2009)
    •  Member, CODAPAR (2005 - 2006, 2007 - 2009)
  • Society for General Psychology (Division 1)
    • Member, Citizen Psychologist Award Committee (2021) 
    • Chair, Fellows Committee (2012 – 2018)
    • Member, Program Review Committee (2010 - 2011)
    • Member, Fellows Committee (2009 – 2015)
    • Fellow (2005 – Present)
    • Chair, Fellows Committee (2005 – 2007)
    • Chair, Technology Committee (2006 – 2009)
  • Society for the Teaching of Psychology (Division 2)
    
    • Chair, International Teaching of Psychology Task Force (2006 – 2009)
    • Fellow (2005 – Present)
  • Educational Psychology (Division 15)
  • Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, & Transgender Issues (2013 – 2017)

  • Ethnic Minority Issues (2013 – 2017)
  • Media Psychology (Division 46)
    • Fellow (2006 – Present)
  • International Psychology (Division 52)
    • Member-at-Large (2013 – 2015)
    • Member, Bylaws Committee (2012 - 2017)
    • Co-Editor, Handbook Committee (2010 – 2017)

    • Member, Membership Committee (2010 – 2012)

    • Member-at-Large (2007 - 2009, 2013 - 2015)
    • Member, Mentoring Committee (2007 – 2016)

    • Member, Nominations and Elections Committee (2006, 2007)

    • Member, Awards Committee(2005 – 2008)
    • Member, Ursula Gielen International Psychology Book Award Committee (2007 – 2010)

    • Co-chair, Curriculum and Training Committee (2006 – 2017)
    • Member, Ageing Committee (2006 – 2013)

    • Member, Long Range Planning Committee(2006 – 2015)
    • Associate Editor, International Psychology Reporter (2005 – 2015)
    • Chair, Website Technology Task Force (2005 – 2012)
    • Webmaster (2005 – 2012)
    • Member, Communications Committee (2005 – 2015)
    • Member, Fellows Committee (2005 – 2010)

    • Newsletter Editor, International Psychology Reporter (Interim) (2005)
    • Chair, Nominations Committee (2005)
    • Member, Nominations Committee (2006)
    • Past President (2005)
    • Listserv Editor and Manager (2004 – 2012)
    • Fellow (2004 – present)

    • President (2004); President-elect (2003)
    • Chair, Membership Committee (2001-2002)
    • Co-Chair, Membership Committee (2000 – 2001)
    • Chair, Program Committee (1999 – 2000)
    • Co-chair, Program Committee (1998 – 1999)
  • Eastern Psychological Association (EPA)
    •  EPA Liaison to Pace University Psychology Department (New York City) (2009 – 2017)
  • International Council of Psychologists (ICP), Full Member
    • Member/Reviewer, Fukuhura Award for Advanced International Psychology Research and Service (2019)
    • Director-at-Large (2011 – 2013, 2014 - 2017)
    • Member, Long Range Planning Committee (2010 – 2011)
    • Co-chair, Technology Interest Group (with Albert Dietrich) (2010 – 2011)
    • Member, Publicity Committee (2011 – 2012)
    • Member, Membership Committee (2011 – 2012)
    • Chair, Communications Committee (2006 – 2009)
    • Member, Continuing Education Committee (2008 – 2009)
    • Non-Governmental Representative(NGO) to the United Nations (UN)
      1. ECOSOC Representative of ICP to the United Nations (2012 – 2017)
      2. DPI Representative of ICP to the United Nations (2007 – 2011)
      3. Chair, Publicity and Registration Subcommittee and Planning Committee Member, Psychology Day at the United Nations (2007 - 2017)
      4. Co-chair, Publicity and Registration Subcommittee and Planning Committee Member, Psychology Day at the United Nations (2018)
      5. Member, Committee on Ageing (2003 – 2013)
        1. Member, Planning Committee of the International Day of Older Persons (2005 – 2013)
        2. Treasurer (2009 – 2013)
        3. Member, Social Media and Website Subcommittee (2010 – 2011)
        4. Member-at-Large (2008 - 2009)
        5. Chair, International Day of Older Persons (2006)
        6. Program Publisher, International Day of Older Persons (2006 – 2013)
        7. Planning Committee Member, International Day of Older Persons (2005 – 2013)
      6. Newsletter Producer and Editor, Committee on Human Settlements (2005 – 2009)
      7. Member, NGO/DPI Website Committee (2005)
    • Representative/Liaison, Division of International Psychology, American Psychological Association (2007 – 2015)
    • Editor, ICP Informational Brochure (2005)
  • National Institute on the Teaching of Psychology (NIToP)
    • Member, External Advisory Committee (2011 – 2017)
  • New York Academy of Sciences (NYAS) – Psychology Section
    • Chair, Psychology Section (2006 – 2008)
    • Vice-Chair, Psychology Section (2004 – 2006)
    • Chair, James McKeen Cattell Award, Thirty-Fourth Dissertation Competition (2004 – 2006)
    • Advisory Board Member, Executive Board (2003 – 2017)
    • Full Member (1995 – 2017)
  • New York State Psychological Association (NYSPA)
    • Founding Fellow, Fellows Committee (2010 – 2017)
    • Member, Nominations and Elections Committee (2009)
    • Co-chair, Awards Committee of the Academic Division (2009)
    • President, Academic Division (2008)
    • Chair, Herb Robbins Scholarship Award, Independent Practice Division (2007 – 2008)
    • Member, Division of Culture, Race, and Ethnicity (2005 – 2007)
    • President, Academic Division (2000 – 2001)
    • Member, Division of Social Issues (2000 – 2007)
    • Member, NYSPA Membership Committee and Liaison to Academic Division (2001 – 2010)
    • Acting Treasurer, Academic Division (1999 – 2000)
    • Member, Ethics Committee (1999 – 2001, 2003 – 2006)
  • PSI CHI, The International Honors Society in Psychology 
    • Chair, Travel Grants Review Committee for the Eastern Regional EPA Convention Psi Chi Research Award (2010 – 2014)
    • Member, Eastern Regional PSI CHI Steering Committee (2009 – 2014)
    • Member, International Task Force/Committee (2008 – 2010)
  • Psychology Coalition of NGOs at the United Nations (PCUN)
    • Member (2011 – 2017)
  • Psychology Day at the United Nations Planning Group
    • Chair, Publicity, Public Relations, and Communications Committee (2011 – 2017)
    • Co-chair, Publicity and Registration Committee (2018)
    • Member, Planning Committee (2007 – 2018)
    • Producer, U.N. Psychology Day Program (2007 – 2018)
  • United Nations Non-Government Organization
    • Member, Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) (2010 – 2018) – A U.N. organ facilitating international cooperation on standards-making and problem-solving in economic and social issues
    • Member, Department of Public Information (DPI) (2005 – 2009) – A U.N. organ facilitating effective information programmes in place and the ability and means to disseminate information about the work of the United Nations.