Category: Alumni Stories

A meaningful life journey

Having a young daughter on the autism spectrum required 24/7 care. So when Rhonda J. Greenhaw discovered the online master’s program at The Chicago School of Professional Psychology (TCSPP), it […]

The Robin Hood theory of mental health

While growing up on the island of St. Croix in the U.S. Virgin Islands, Dr. E. Susanne “Susy” Francis Best was acutely conscious of that very thin line that separates […]

Championing a diversity of voices and perspectives

Dr. Manika Turnbull’s first lesson in psychology was watching her own parents bicker and battle their way through an unpleasant divorce. She was just a little girl in pigtails, watching—and […]

Carrying the torch for black psychologists

A black kid attending a predominantly white, middle class Miami elementary school, Jarvis Sams didn’t think much about his race when he was growing up. His mother was a second grade […]

Paying forward a legacy of hope

Growing up in a poor neighborhood in rural Midland, Texas, Nolana Nobles Bandy was very young when she began to notice behavior patterns in other people’s families that just didn’t […]