Caucus Purpose
Help APA fulfill its strategic plan goals of being a global partner and a human-rights engaged organization.
Specific statements of this purpose in the APA Strategic Plan:
- Operating Principle: “Embrace a Global Perspective: Advance psychology globally through international engagement, association efforts, and meaningful collaborations.”
- Guiding Principle: “Respect and Promote Human Rights – Focus on human rights, fairness, and dignity for all segments of society.”
Caucus Goals
These will focus on Council actions to comment on current business and develop an agenda to:
- Focus on ways to encourage APA and COR to adopt a global and global human rights lens as they/we implement APA’s major strategic goals and objectives
- Encourage APA to implement the recommended actions in the APA Council Resolution on Adopting a Global Perspective (2017) and the APA Resolution on Human Rights (2021) in APA programs and initiatives.
Caucus Executive Committee
Merry Bullock (D52) and Ally Merchant (D39) – Co-Chairs
Michelle Ribeiro (D49) – Past Co-Chair
Lisa Ferdinand (D17) – Secretary
Lu Steinberg (D39) – Council Liaison
Caucus Executive Committee
Merry Bullock (D52) and Ally Merchant (D39) – Co-Chairs
Michelle Ribeiro (D49) Past Co-Chair
Lisa Ferdinand (D17) – Secretary
Lu Steinberg (D39) – Council Liaison
Caucus Materials
Feb 17 2023 Caucus Meeting – Agenda – Minutes
Town Hall Meeting – Link to Recording
August xx, 2022 Caucus Meeting – Minutes
Business in Progress
New Business Item (draft) – Amend the APA Rules and Procedures to incude the Committee on Global Psychology in the Council Agenda Planning Group
New Business Item (in development) – Resolution addressing the needs of international pscyhology graduate students