Mentoring Women in the Context of Gender, Racial, Ethnic, and Sexual Power Barriers

Member Since 2011

Barbara W. Kamholz, PhD, ABPP is a public health leader, social justice advocate, educator, and clinical psychologist, with a mission to enhance human well-being and benefit society. Her broad background and expertise informs her work in grassroots advocacy, healthcare, non-profit organizations, and political engagement. She has developed in-person and virtual training programs locally and nationally, applied behavioral principles to enhance the messaging and mission of multiple organizations, and is adept at translating complex concepts for different audiences. As a clinical psychologist, Dr. Kamholz builds strong working relationships, develops strategies for behavioral change, and engages others in the hard work of effecting that change.

Dr. Kamholz plays leadership and advisory roles in multiple non-profit organizations and works in political advocacy and electoral politics. She is Associate Director of Outpatient Mental Health Services at VA Boston Healthcare System, Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Boston University School of Medicine, Board Certified in Behavioral and Cognitive Psychology, and Senior Advisor for Professional Education at ADAA. She also provides direct patient care. Email Barbara.

Member Since 2018

Dr. Jessica Graham-LoPresti is co-founder of BARE Mental Health & Wellness, LLC and an Assistant Professor of Psychology in the clinical psychology doctoral program at Suffolk University.  Dr. Graham-LoPresti graduated from Williams College with a B.A. in Psychology and American Studies and received her M.A. and Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of Massachusetts Boston. She has focused her career on promoting the resilience, health, and well-being of people and communities of color and has published extensively on the multi-level impact of racism on mental health as well as barriers to quality and effective mental healthcare for underserved and underrepresented communities.  In addition, Dr. Graham-LoPresti owns a clinical private practice where she helps clients cope with a range of psychological struggles including anxiety, depression, trauma, relationship challenges, as well as stress associated with marginalization and oppression.

Member Since 2010

Sarah Hayes-Skelton, PhD is an associate professor in the psychology department at the University of Massachusetts Boston where she is currently the director of clinical training for the Clinical Psychology Doctoral Program.  Within this role, Dr. Hayes-Skelton mentors students within this scientist-practitioner-activist focused doctoral program. Dr. Hayes-Skelton completed a Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Nebraska – Lincoln in 2007.  Her primary research examines the mechanisms and processes responsible for change in psychotherapy for anxiety disorders with a particular commitment to enhancing the cultural-sensitivity of these treatments.  She is also a licensed psychologist in Massachusetts.  Dr. Hayes-Skelton is an active member serving on committees in professional organizations such as ADAA.   

Keith D. Renshaw, Ph.D. is a Professor & Department Chair of Psychology, as well as the Director of the Military, Veterans, and Families Initiative, at George Mason University. He received his doctoral degree in clinical psychology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2003 and was a faculty member at the University of Utah from 2005-2009 before moving to George Mason University in 2009. Dr. Renshaw’s overall research focus is on the interpersonal context of anxiety, stress, and trauma, with a particular emphasis on the experience of combat veterans and their spouses. He has received over $3 million in extramural funding, published more than 80 peer-reviewed publications, given more than 150 conference presentations, and given numerous invited talks on these and other topics. Dr. Renshaw has also won multiple teaching awards, including the George Mason University Teaching Excellence Award (2015). In addition to classroom teaching, he is heavily devoted to the mentorship of doctoral students. Under his supervision, his students have received over $250,000 in extramural funding, published over 50 peer-reviewed publications, and made over 90 presentations at national conferences. From 2016-2019, Dr. Renshaw also served as Chair of George Mason’s Faculty Senate and the faculty representative to the University’s governing Board of Visitors (BOV). In 2020, he led the creation of George Mason’s Military, Veterans, & Families Initiative. As the Director, he is overseeing the formation of community partnerships, creation of new virtual programming, development of new programs, and fundraising efforts.
 

Karen G. Martinez-Gonzalez, MD, MSc is a child and adolescent psychiatrist in San Juan, Puerto Rico.  She is an Associate Professor at the University of Puerto Rico where she directs the Center for the Study and Treatment of Fear and Anxiety and is the Chair of the Department of Psychiatry. She also completed a Post-Doctoral Master’s in Clinical and Translational Research in 2006 and is now the Principal Investigator (R25MD007607) and Director of this program.  Dr. Martínez-González is a founding member of the University of Puerto Rico Center for Perinatal Mental Health where several research projects understanding stress, perinatal mental health and child development in Puerto Rico are being conducted.  She is an active member of several professional organizations, such as the Anxiety and Depression Association of America where she recently received the Member Recognition Award for her work on the Multicultural and the Women’s Mental Health Special Interest Groups.  She is also part of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP) Trauma and Disaster Committee and president of the Puerto Rico Chapter; member of the board of directors and past president of the Association for Clinical and Translational Science (ACTS).