JACQUELINE BEARCE

Jacqueline Bearce graduated from Merrimack College and has her doctorate in counseling psychology from the University of Massachusetts. She has experience in individual counseling from humanistic, behavioral, and cognitive points of view and is also trained and experienced in group consultation and facilitation. As an African-American psychologist, she is concerned with issues of race and gender and has worked with groups to increase communication and the valuing of diversity.

CAROLYN ROBERTSON PAYTON

Carolyn Robertson Payton has been a powerful advocate for women's and minority rights, a pioneer in cross-cultural and ethnic minority psychology as well as the early movement for specialized training for psychotherapists for treating clients of an ethnic minority. Not only was she the first woman and the first African American psychologist to hold the position of director of the U.S. Peace Corps, but she was the first individual psychologist. Carolyn Robertson Payton died in 2001.