Guest speakers' bio notes

Wade E. Pickren, PhD, Independent Scholar: Psychologies Otherwise/Earthwise
Co-Editor, Review of General Psychology, Ithaca, NY, USA & Toronto, Canada
Email: wpar29@gmail.com, rgpwade@gmail.com

Wade Pickren is a psychologist, writer, and editor with a sustained commitment to the practice of environmental, racial, and social justice. Wade is developing a psychology otherwise and Earthwise. In collaboration with others, he seeks to create a new commons characterized by reciprocity and cooperation and guided by a deep relationality and respect for all beings. His guiding question is how can human and more-than-human beings have lives and futures based on living in deep recognition of our mutual interdependence and the co-constitution of all on the Earth? His scholarly work examines the enduring impacts of coloniality of being and knowledge on human thought and practice and proposes a pluriversal approach to inquiry that may diminish the historically oppressive character of the scholarly disciplines.

 

Alexandra Rutherford PhD CPsych. (she/her pronouns), Professor, Dept. of Psychology, York University
Toronto, E-mail: alexr@yorku.ca

Alexandra Rutherford is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at York University in Toronto. She uses critical historical and qualitative approaches to analyze the development and contemporary status of the human sciences. She is interested in how psychologists have used their scientific ‘expertise’ to impact society and how, in turn, social and political factors have shaped the nature of this expertise and its influence. In her current project, she examines the relationship between feminist psychology and policy in the United States from the 1940s-present. She founded and direct the Psychology’s Feminist Voices multimedia digital archive project. This project creates, collects, and curates material about women, gender, and feminism in psychology, past and present.

She is a member of the Centre for Feminist Research at York University. In 2013 she was president of the Society for the History of Psychology and in 2018-19. She was president of the Society for General Psychology. She is an Associate Editor of American Psychologist and the editor of the Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences. She serves on the editorial board of Feminism & Psychology, and is a member of the advisory board of the Center for the History of Psychology. She is passionate about history, feminism, and psychology and loves to garden.