May 4
Convocation: Richard Lee
Richard M. Lee is a Professor of Psychology and Asian American Studies at the University of Minnesota, where his research focuses on the psychological aspects of culture, ethnicity and race that function as risk and protective factors for well-being, mental health, and achievement in ethnic and racial minority populations. An innovative critical thinker who seamlessly translates science into practice, Lee has changed the face of recent Asian-American research in psychology. His involvement with The Minnesota International Adoption Project Team has encouraged researchers, clinicians, parents and adoptees to begin the necessary dialogue about more than 150,000 Korean adoptees in the U.S. who struggle with unique racial identity development processes and racism that their adoptive families do not face. In collaboration with the Center for Personalized Prevention Research in Children's Mental Health at the University of Minnesota, Lee engages in community-based research on the cultural adaptation of evidence-based prevention programs for racial and ethnic minority populations. Lee is past president of the Asian-American Psychological Association, an elected fellow of the American Psychological Association, and editor-in-chief of Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology. Lee weaves personal stories about growing up as an Asian American with his psychological research on the ways in which ethnic and racial minorities experience, negotiate, and resist everyday racial and ethnic encounters in the family, among friends, and in society, in his presentation titled “Stupid People: How To Make Sense of King's English, Fighting Racism, and Staying Healthy.” This Asian Pacific American Heritage Month Convocation is sponsored by the Office of Intercultural and International Life.
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