Early Career Psychology Diversity Award

2025 Early Career Psychology Diversity Awardee

Dr. Andrew Young Choi is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Pace University, where he teaches in the Clinical Health Psychology Program. His award-winning interdisciplinary scholarship employs queer of color critique to examine intersectionality and racism-related stress among Asian Americans, leveraging psychoanalytic concepts to explore the evolving nature of anti-Asian racialization and its theoretical and clinical implications. He is a former American Psychological Association (APA) Minority Fellow, Pacific Athletic Conference (PAC-12) Postgraduate Scholar, and University of California Regents Special Fellow.

Dr. Choi is board-certified in Counseling Psychology and specializes in culturally responsive, integrative psychodynamic psychotherapy to assist high-achieving professionals from diverse backgrounds in meeting a wide range of mental health and personal development goals. He earned his PhD in Counseling, Clinical, and School Psychology from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and his APA-accredited Doctoral Internship in Health Service Psychology at the Counseling and Student Development Center of the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. He completed his Postdoctoral Fellowship in Clinical Psychology at Cambridge Health Alliance / Harvard Medical School.

The Early Career Psychology Diversity Award is given for dedication to diversity/multiculturalism in professional psychology.

The American Board of Professional Psychology (ABPP) is pleased to announce the annual Early Career Diversity Award.  The purpose of this award is to encourage board certification by Early Career Psychologists (ECP) who are members of under-represented groups in ABPP.

ABPP will provide one ECP from an under-represented group with a $1,000 award to reimburse board certification expenses.  Applicants for this award may be nominated by their ABPP Specialty Board/Academy or be self-nominated.  

Eligibility Criteria

  1. The nominee must have successfully completed the ABPP board certification process in the year prior to submission of the application.
  2. Nominees must have received their psychology doctoral degree no more than ten calendar years before the year in which the award is to be awarded. (i.e., for 2025, the degree must have been granted in 2015 or after)
  3. Under-represented groups in ABPP include ethnic and racial minorities, women, persons with a minority sexual orientation (LGBTQQIA), persons with disabilities. The nominee must be a member of one of these communities.

Candidates should submit all materials at once online:

  1. Current Curriculum Vita.
  2. Nomination letter from self and/or ABPP Specialty Board or Academy; letter must address candidate’s membership in one or more under-represented communities.
  3. Brief answers (maximum of 1,000 words total) to address the following questions:
  • How did diversity and/or multiculturalism factor into your career choice?
  • How have you integrated principles of multiculturalism and/or diversity competence in your professional psychology work (especially clinical practice and leadership roles)?   
  • How do you believe that your psychology specialty and/or ABPP can better emphasize multiculturalism and/or diversity?

 The award winner will be chosen based upon 

  • Dedication to a multicultural/diversity focus in career choice and professional psychology work
  • Participation in individual or group efforts to promote diversity and expand access for underserved patients
  • Potential to enhance diversity and/or multiculturalism in professional psychology
  • Professional strengths and successes identified in the nomination letter

The deadline for submitting a nomination is April 15, 2025.

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