Group Endorsements

Individual Endorsements

“During today’s regressive sociopolitical climate, APA's engagement with the judiciary will play a critical role in protecting people’s well-being.  Margaret is playing a key role in this engagement: From informing the courts on reproductive rights to what contributes to wrongful convictions, she has translated the psychological science so that justices have been better informed when making their decisions.”

Francisco Sanchez, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, School of Counseling and Counseling Psychology, Arizona State University
Fellow, APA Divisions 12, 17, 29 , 44, and 45
Member, APA Amicus Curiae Expert Panel
Past-Chair, APA Membership Board and Board of Convention Affairs

“I’m voting for Margaret because I know she will be the calm and steady force to guide APA into the future.  More than ever our association needs her voice and research to guide APA public policy. ”

Randall White, Ph.D.

Founding PartnerExecutive Development Group
Chair, APA Policy and Planning Board
Past President, Division 13
APA Fellow Divisions 1, 13, and 14

“I support Dr. Kovera for the next president of APA.  I have worked along Dr. Kovera as the Chair of Division 41’s Broadening Representation, Inclusion, Diversity, and Global Equity (BRIDGE) Committee. Dr. Kovera created this program during her presidency of Division 41 to increase BIPOC membership and it has. She consistently argued for financial support of this initiative, quoting Matthew 6:21 “Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also."  Dr: Kovera has shown her support of DEI initiatives through her votes and action in Division 41 and as a representative on APA Council. Her commitment to APA and psychological science overall is genuine and unwavering. Under her leadership, APA will flourish and continue to support the goals of equity and diversity."

Christopher Bishop, PsyD, LICSW

Associate Professor of Psychology, Trinity Washington University
Former Member-at-Large, Division 41 Executive Committee
Chair, Broadening Representation, Inclusion, Diversity, and Global Equity Committee (Division 41)
Member, APA Child Protection Guideline Task Force

“It is with great enthusiasm that I endorse Margaret Bull Kovera for APA President-Elect. I have known Margaret for many years, both in her multitude of roles in APA and Division governance, and personally as a friend and colleague. Her professional work spans both education and training as a faculty member at John Jay, and practice and consultation through her extensive forensic work. In both aspects of her career, Margaret’s work is firmly grounded in the science of psychology, which gives her the gravitas that commands respect, whether she is teaching, mentoring, providing expert testimony to the courts, or advocating for human rights in all of its diversity. In her governance work, she has demonstrated a thorough understanding of the functioning of a professional association appropriate to both c3 and c6 roles—an understanding that is critical in the current political atmosphere. Margaret will guide the APA and APASi through these challenging times with a clear focus on the integrity of our Association.."

Michael Hendricks, PhD,

Clinical Professor, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences
Fellow of APA Divisions 9 (SPSSI), 12 (Clinical), 42 (Independent Practice), 44 (Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity)
Member, Division 41 (American Psychology-Law Society)

“I am honored to endorse Margaret Bull Kovera for APA President. As President of Division 41, Margaret instituted programs that increase inclusiveness by supporting underrepresented students and professionals, and launching a committee dedicated to ensuring early career professionals have support when establishing their careers. Her broader work in expert testimony and public policy has also ensured that psychology’s contributions are felt in the real world and help contribute to a better legal system and society.

Margaret takes a big picture view of the field, which is essential for someone serving as president of an organization like APA. Her vision builds opportunities for individuals from many different professional backgrounds to impact and improve society; she would truly represent all of APA’s members. Margaret has been a leader for using psychological science to positively impact society, and she has the expertise to implement her vision in a way that supports and extends the mission of APA. I unequivocally give my full support to Margaret, and I hope you will choose to support her presidency as well.

Jennifer Perillo, PhD

Associate Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center
Treasurer, Division 41 (Psychology and Law)
Associate Editor, Law and Human Behavior

“I have known Margaret for a long time, and she knows more about APA than anyone I know. For decades, Margaret has supported and led several Divisions with amazing administrative talent. As a mentor, she has helped to mold a whole generation of APA's finest leaders, including division presidents and editors of APA journals. Margaret has enjoyed a progressive series of important leadership roles, editorial responsibilities, and an amazingly productive academic and scholarly career. She has contributed to a series of APA Amicus briefs that have been submitted to and cited by the US Supreme Court, always in the interests of psychological science. Margaret loves psychology, and if elected, she will take great care of APA's interests while simultaneously serving the emotional and cognitive well-being of the communities we serve. I will vote for Margaret Kovera, and I hope you will consider doing so, too.”

Joel A. Dvoskin, Ph.D., ABPP (Forensic)

Past President, APA Divisions 18 and 41
APA Fellow, Divisions 1, 18, 41, and 56
Asst. Clinical Professor of Psychiatry - University of Arizona College of Medicine
Training Psychologist - Active Bystandership for Law Enforcement

“I am proud to endorse Margaret Bull Kovera for APA President-Elect. Margaret brings a principled commitment to the fair and effective application of psychological science, including to the needs and rights of justice-involved persons. Her leadership reflects intellectual rigor, integrity, transparency, accountability, and meaningful engagement across the breadth of our discipline. She offers an inclusive, forward-looking vision for APA that will strengthen psychology’s service to the public while carefully stewarding the profession’s core values."

James W. Mikesell, Ph.D, ABPP (FP/RP).

President of the American Academpy of Forensic Psychology

“I strongly endorse Margaret for APA President. I served as her Deputy while she led APA Council’s applied psychology caucus, and appreciate how she embodies so many effective leadership qualities that can be hard to find in the same person. Tenacious and driven, yet kind and encouraging. Honest and transparent, but also politically savvy. Fearless about sharing her views and advocating for others, all while listening and adjusting based on what she learns. Simply put, Margaret gets things done, always while bringing others along. Plus, her work at the intersection of psychology and law could not be more important given our current political and social climate. Margaret would make an amazing APA President, and I am proud to offer her my vote and my full support.””

Gavan O’Shea, Ph.D.

Fellow, Division 14 (I‑O Psychology)
APA Council Representative (Division 14), 2020–2022
Deputy Chair, General Applied Psychology/Psychologists (GAAP) Council Caucus, 2022
Manager, Business Development Team, Human Resources Research Organization (HumRRO)

“I am thrilled to endorse Dr. Margaret Bull Kovera for APA President. Dr. Kovera is a passionate scholar whose methodological expertise and commitment to criminal legal system reform would greatly benefit APA. The kindness, integrity, and scholarly excellence I have witnessed in her classroom would undoubtedly carry into her leadership of APA."

Caraline Malloy, ABD

Doctoral Student and Adjunct Professor, The CUNY Graduate Center & Baruch College
DEI Committee Representative, The CUNY Graduate Center
Past Conference Co-Chair, Blacks in I/O Psychology

“Margaret is an outstanding leader. She is passionate about social justice and deeply committed to drawing on psychological science to guide public policy and practice. She is an outstanding and eloquent advocate. She listens well, is skilled at bringing coalitions together to solve problems, and developing future leaders. I’m excited to support her for APA President.”

Jeff McHenry, Ph.D.

Rainier Leadership Solutions
Past-President and Fellow, Division 14 (Industrial/Organizational)
APA Council of Representatives - APA Division 14: SIOP
Member-at-Large, Coalition for Academic, Scientific, and Applied Research Psychology
Past-Chair, General Applied Psychology/Psychologists Caucus of APA Council

“As a social psychologist who studies bias in the criminal justice system, I have long known about Margaret's academic work and leadership. My time on council has further impressed me with her credentials and ability to make substantive contributions to advancing science at APA as president. ”

Kimberly Barsamian Kahn, Ph.D.

Professor, Social Psychology, Portland State University
APA Division 8, Society for Personality and Social Psychology, former Council Representative
APA Council of Representatives Public Interest Caucus former Executive Board member
APA Division 9, Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI) President and former Council member
Former Chair of SPSSI Diversity Committee
APA Equity, Diversity, & Inclusion Collaborative Committee, former member

“I am honored to endorse Margaret for APA President. I have worked with Margaret on Council and in GAPP leadership.  She has consistently impressed me with her ability to negotiate across multiple stakeholders, keep herself and others focused on their goals, minimize political rancor, and achieve concrete, meaningful changes for the betterment of APA.  She has worked with multiple divisions constructively, and values the balance of science, practice, and education.”

Bill Berman, Ph.D., ABPP

CEO, Berman Leadership Development
Former President, Society of Consulting Psychology (Division 13)
Former Council Representative, Division 13
Fellow, Divisions 12, 13 and Society of Personality Assessment
2026 Winner, RHR Award for Excellence in Consulting

“It is with great pleasure that I give my strongest endorsement of Margaret Bull Kovera for President-Elect of APA. I met Margaret while on Council of Representatives. During this time, I have seen her work actively to collaboratively initiate and improve policies and policy statements to advance the wellbeing of others with special attention to neglected issues and underserved populations. Importantly, all of this work has been based in science with a strong eye towards advancing research in basic and applied psychology. She has shown exemplary leadership as Chair of the Caucus of General and Applied Psychology and Psychologists (GAPP) and as Secretary of the Coalition of Academic, Scientific, and Applied Psychology (CASAP), and in advancing APA's Amicus Curiae program in which psychological science is brought to bear on critical cases going through the courts. Margaret is truly a leader in showing how psychological science can do good. I am thrilled that Margaret is a candidate for President-Elect of APA, and hope you get to know her better during this campaign and support her candidacy as well.”

Rachel Fouladi, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Psychology, Simon Fraser University
Member at Large, APA Council Leadership TeamMember
former APA Council of Representatives - APA Division 5: Quantitative & Qualitative Psychology
President-Elect - APA Division 5: Quantitative & Qualitative Psychology 
President, APA Council’s Coalition for Academic, Scientific, and Applied Research Psychology
Treasurer, APA Council’s Public Interest Caucus 
Co-Chair, Indigenous Reconciliation Committee of SFU Department of Psychology 
Member, APA Divisions 5, 9, 35, 45, and 47
Member, the American Middle Eastern, North African Psychology Association (AMENA-Psy)
Member, the Society of Indian Psychologists (SIP)

"I am excited and honored to endorse Margaret Bull Kovera’s candidacy for President of APA because I believe she has the expertise, experience, energy, temperament, and vision to be an outstanding and unifying leader of the Association.  Across the decades I have known her, Margaret has conducted research of the highest quality and significance, focusing most directly on issues where psychological science should, can, and does inform all major stakeholders in the legal system.  She has simultaneously provided first rate teaching and supervision at John Jay College of the City University of New York, mentoring students and colleagues who have themselves gone on to distinguished careers in practice as well as in academia.  Her commitment to APA has likewise been manifest in decades of service – including as an Editor of an affiliate journal, as President of Division 41 (Psychology and Law), and most recently as one of the Division’s very effective representatives to APA’s Council of Representatives.  I believe that Margaret would be an exceptional President and encourage fellow members to lend her their votes."

Michael E. Lamb, Ph.D.

Professor of Psychology (Emeritus), University of Cambridge
Fellow, APA Divisions 7 (Developmental) and 41 (American Psychology-Law Society)

Former APA Council Representative

“I've known Margaret Kovera for 20 years and cannot stress enough what a wonderful mentor, scholar, activist, organizer, and human being she is. She gets stuff done, gets it done well, and gets it done collaboratively. APA would greatly benefit from her leadership!.”

Anthony Perillo, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center
Training Director, Forensic Psychology Postdoctoral Fellowship Program

"Margaret will be an extraordinary APA President. She has an unparalleled grasp of how psychological science can and should be used to advance the social justice goals of the organization. Over a distinguished  career spanning many years, Margaret has matched her outstanding scholarly career with a tireless commitment to a wide range of social policy issues. She has already performed magnificently in a number of important leadership roles in the organization  and has the experience and vision to move APA to greater heights.  She has my unqualified support!”

Craig Haney, JD, PhD

Distinguished Professor of Psychology, UC Santa Cruz
Member, APA Amicus Curiae Expert Panel

“I am delighted to support Margaret Bull Kovera for the role of APA President. Margaret is a skilled leader who has led several Divisions within APA, including the American Psychology-Law Society. She is passionate about ensuring research and evidence are considered for policies. Under Margaret’s leadership, APA will play a leading voice in criminal legal system reform, particularly on the need to expand the training of mental health professionals to help address public safety issues. She is also deeply dedicated to equity and will help address ways to diversify the profession at all levels of leadership and engagement."

Preeti Chauhan, PhD

Professor of Psychology, City University of New York
Former Vice President of research and policy at the Urban Institute

"I am incredibly excited about Margaret Bull Kovera's nomination for APA President-Elect. I have known her professionally for a very long time and can attest to her brilliance and creativity as a psychological scientist, as a person of high moral integrity and strength of character, as a person of faith, and as someone who, throughout her career, has displayed an unwavering compassion for the diversity of human experience. I unequivocally endorse her candidacy!"

Eugene Borgida, PhD

Professor of Psychology, University of Minnesota
Morse-Alumni Distinguished Professor of Psychology
Past President, Society of the Psychological Study of Social Issues (APA Division 9)
APA Fellow, Divisions 1 (General), 8 (Personality and Social Psychology, 9 (SPSSI), and 41 (Psychology and Law)

“I am thrilled to enthusiastically endorse Margaret Bull Kovera for APA President. Margaret has proven to be an outstanding leader in the field. Her research is theoretically interesting and practically significant, with the aims of using psychological science to increase just outcomes across the legal system.  In her administrative work, she has served in leadership positions on countless APA Committees and Divisions – continuously and successfully advocating for increased support for members and increased societal impact of our work. As the President of APA, Margaret will bring the knowledge, skills, expertise, and passion to the position to ensure APA will advance in the mission to ‘give psychology away’. I unequivocally give Margaret my strongest support."

Lora Levett, PhD

Associate Professor, University of Florida
Past-President and Former Secretary, APA Division 41 (Psychology and Law)
Inaugural Chair of Division 41’s ECP Committee

“As APA President, Dr. Margaret Bull Kovera would bring incredible experience in leadership, advocacy, and science to the role. She is a proven leader who will ensure that APA expands its voice to address critical issues facing society. ”

Jason Cantone, JD, PhD

former APA Council of Representatives, Division 41
APA Fellow, Division 41

“Margaret has my vote because she is simply terrific at all she does. She will be an excellent APA President, blending her leadership skills with a devotion to our science and advocating for that science to take center stage in policy decisions.”

Deryn Strange, Ph.D.

Professor of Psychology - CUNY
Past-President, Society for Applied Research in Memory and Cognition

  • Tammy Allen, PhD

    Professor, Department of Psychology, University of South Florida
    Past-President and current APA Council Representative, Division 14 (SIOP)
    Past-President, Society for Occupational Health Psychology

  • Joshua Aronson, PhD

    Associate Professor

    Director MIndful Education Lab

    New York University

  • Linda Skitka, PhD

    Emerita Professor of Psychology, University of Illinois at Chicago
    Past-President , APA Division 8 (Personality and Social Psychology)

  • Saul Kassin, PhD

    Distinguished Professor of Psychology, City University of New York
    APA Fellow, Divisions 8 (Social and Personality Psychology), 41 (Psychology and Law)
    Past-President APA Division 41 (Psychology and Law)

  • William Stoops, PhD

    Professor, Department of Behavioral Science with Joint Appointments in the Departments of Psychiatry and Psychology
    Past-President and current APA Council Representative, Division 28 (Psychopharmacology and Substance Abuse)

  • Jennifer Woolard, PhD

    Professor of Psychology and Vice Dean of Faculty Affairs, Georgetown University
    Past-President, APA Division 41 (Psychology and Law)
    Secretary, APA Division 37 (Child and Family Policy and Practice)
    Former Member APA Committee on Legal Issues
    Member, APA Task Force on Solitary Confinement in Juvenile JusticeDescription goes here

  • Catherine Good, PhD

    Associate Professor of Psychology, Baruch College