to better prepare doctoral students, and especially students of color, for academic careers. Phelps is a licensed psychologist in the state of Indiana. She previously chaired the Ethnic and Cultural Diversity Committee of APA, Division 17 (1990-1991) and served as President of the Southeastern Psychological Association (2018). Research Phelps's dissertation research focused on racial differences in perceptions of verbal aggression. In this study, 80 Black women and 80 White women were asked to rate different situations in terms of how aggressive they were. The results displayed a clear difference between races, with White women viewing all of the scenarios as higher in aggression than Black women. Phelps has conducted many studies related to her expertise in counseling psychology. One of her projects focused on university and college counseling centers as an option for new professionals in counseling psychology. Phelps examined the choice that many new counseling psychologists make on whether to begin their career in a school or university and reviewed professional and personal issues that may arise when opting to work in the education system. Through collaborative research projects, Phelps has addressed many topics of relevance to training counseling psychologists, including the personalization of career-related choices, implementation of the scientist-practitioner model, cultural competency, and social justice, while taking issues of race, gender, and social inequality into account. References External links Faculty homepage African-American psychologists African-American activists American Psychological Association 1955 births University of Georgia faculty Ohio State University College of Arts and Sciences alumni Living people 21st-century African-American people 20th-century African-American people