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APA in San Francisco August 9 – 12, 2018
The American Psychological Association will hold it’s 2018 Convention August 9–12 in San Francisco, California.
Keynote Speaker is Bryan Stevenson, JD, acclaimed public interest attorney Bryan Stevenson, JD, founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative. Organizers note that, “Stevenson is a fierce and devoted advocate for the powerless in the criminal justice system. Under his leadership, the Equal Justice Initiative has won major legal challenges, reversals or release for more than 100 wrongly condemned prisoners on death row, exposed abuse of the incarcerated and aided children prosecuted as adults. At the U.S. Supreme Court, he won a historic ruling that mandatory life- without-parole sentences for children 17 or younger are unconstitutional.”
Recipient of the APA Award for Outstanding Lifetime Contributions to Psychology, Margaret Beale Spencer, PhD, will speak about pioneering work in adolescent psychology and her mentorship of young psychologists who have become mentors themselves. “With a research emphasis on resiliency, identity and competence formation, Dr. Spencer forged new paths in the cognitive and socio-emotional aspects of development, particularly with young people of color and from low-resource family backgrounds,” said organizers.
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