Shauna Cooper, PhD, Shauna M. Cooper is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Director of the Strengths, Assets, and Resilience (StAR) Lab at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a RTI University Scholar at the Center on Social Determinants, Risk Behaviors and Prevention Science. Dr. Cooper received her Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology from the University of Michigan. Her research examines racial and cultural contexts of development, with a specific focus on African American children, adolescents, and families. Dr. Cooper’s areas of expertise include: 1) how race-related experiences are related to health and wellbeing; 2) the cultural context of parenting; and 3) community-level risk and protective factors. Her recent work examines contextual and psychosocial factors associated with African American fathers’ parenting and involvement. Dr. Cooper's research has been funded by several agencies and organizations (National Science Foundation; National Institutes of Child Health and Human Development) and published in a number of scientific journals. Dr. Cooper also is committed to the translation of her research, including informing the development of culturally specific family-focused prevention programming.

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Wendi S. Williams, PhD, is

the President of APA Division 35 Psychology of Women  and Professor and Dean of the School of Education. Dr. Williams work centers on the development, implementation, and evaluation of school and community-based health and educational interventions that promote health and well-being among youth, their families, and the educational and mental health practitioners who will work with them. Through her scholarship and research activity, she has articulated an intersectional approach to psycho-social spiritual intervention for middle school girls. The foundations of this work have extended to reflective-intervention to facilitate leadership development among diverse women and Black/African women, specifically. Recent scholarship includes, “Frenemies in the Academy: Relational Aggression among African American Women Academicians”, and a Special Issue on “Feminist Approaches to Interventions with Black Girls and Women” (June 2019), for the journal Women and Therapy. She is currently working on a new book, Black women at work: On being masked, muted, and muzzled.

Dr. Chuck Hollister, PhD, is a licensed psychologist in private practice and CEO of the Missouri Psychological Association. Under his leadership the Missouri Psychological Association was named Division 31’s Outstanding SPTA for 2019. As a therapist, Dr. Hollister has worked with over 25,000 thousand children and their families. Most of these children were seen as being a danger to self or others. He is a past Karl F. Heiser Presidential award winner for his work in state advocacy. One of his most important projects was demonstrating that children, who were being sent to state hospital for months at time, could be treated locally in residential settings so they could remain close to family and attend local schools. Dr. Hollister has built strong relationships with Missouri’s regulatory agencies, which led to the decision by the state’s Medicaid program to fund psychology interns. Currently Dr. Hollister is working with the Missouri’s Medicaid program on how to best transition foster children’s care into Missouri’s managed care system. Dr. Hollister is a member of Division 31 and 43, APA’s Director of Professional Affairs group, and APA’s Advocacy Coordinating Committee. Dr. Hollister was APA’s an invited guest and presenter last week at a virtual town hall on the relationship between state associations and APA.

Anthony Gay is currently employed by the CT, Department of Children and Families (DCF) and has been a supervisor for the agency the past 14 years.
From July 2010 - September 2012 Anthony served as a  Supervisory Child Welfare Trainer- at the Department’s Training Academy – where he developed and revised curriculums and facilitated various in-service and pre-service trainings for agency staff  including Partners in Change, Human and Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking, Cultural Competency, Adolescent Trauma, and Fatherhood Engagement to name a few.  This is where he work around fatherhood began. Since then, Anthony has been working to improve communities by advocating for equality for fathers involved in all systems, while holding fathers and agencies accountable for full family engagement.
Anthony was appointed by the Commissioner of (DCF) to serve as the agency representation on the Statewide CT Fatherhood Initiative (CFI).
For the last 10 years, Anthony has been the voice of equality at DCF and has served as the Region 5 Fatherhood Engagement Leadership Team Lead (F.E.L.T). Anthony has developed fatherhood presentations focusing on the impact fatherlessness for providers and community providers, etc.
Anthony is the creator of the Dads Matter Too movement, which encompasses the Dad Matter Too Community Day, Conference, Golf Tournament, Fatherhood Community Calendar, and Facebook page that boast over 160,000 followers from around the world.
Anthony has received numerous awards for his work with father and families, and continues to focus on improving the lives of children and families in the State of CT.

Dr. Singley is a San Diego-based board certified psychologist and Director of The Center for Men’s Excellence. His research and practice focus on men’s mental health with a particular emphasis on reproductive psychology and the transition to fatherhood. Dr. Singley won the American Psychological Association’s 2017 Practitioner of the Year Award from the Division on Men & Masculinities. He is Past President of the APA’s Section on Positive Psychology and currently serves on the Board of the APA’s Society for the Psychological Study of Men and Masculinities as well as Postpartum Support International. He conducts trainings and presentations around the country to assist individuals and organizations to enhance their level of father inclusiveness and founded the grant-funded Basic Training for New Dads, Inc nonprofit and Padre Cadre social networking application just for dads in order to give new fathers the tools they need to be highly engaged with their infants as well as their partners. In his free time, Dr. Singley likes to cook, surf, read, and drive his two sons to activities all over town so they can’t escape his annoying shrinky questions. Follow him @MenExcel and www.facebook.com/MenExcel/