Award for Distinguished Senior Career Contributions to Psychology in the Public Interest: Helen A. Neville.

Abstract

"For her outstanding contributions in research, theory, and service to advance our awareness of color-blind racial ideology, Helen A. Neville's work is a model of psychology in the public interest. Her work supports efforts toward a solution to racism, one of the world's intransigent social problems. Dr. Neville and her colleagues pioneered conceptual models and measures that articulate the role of color evasion (ignoring race) and power evasion (denying structural racism) as key components of color-blind racial ideology that legitimizes racial inequality. Dr. Neville has integrated the science and practice of psychology to serve the public interest and advances social justice and human welfare as president of American Psychological Association (APA) Division 45, the Society for Psychological Study of Culture, Ethnicity, and Race, and president-elect of APA Division 17, the Society of Counseling Psychology. Dr. Neville has served the public interest through her exceptional editorial work in books and special issues and proposed guidelines on issues of culture, ethnicity, and race as an active member of distinguished APA committees. Dr. Neville and her colleagues have advanced our understanding of racial trauma and addressed their impact by promoting theory, research, training, policy, and interventions on radical hope, healing, and liberation." This award recognizes people who have advanced psychology as a science and/or profession by a single extraordinary achievement or a lifetime of outstanding contributions in the public interest. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).