Home Stimulation, and Teacher-Child Interactive Behavior on the Academic Performance of Low-Income Mexican American Children". Ponterotto credits minority scholars in multicultural research for sustaining his commitment and self-confidence as a graduate student and new professional in the field, including; Thomas Parham, Janet Helms, William Cross, Derald Wing Sue, and first and foremost Casas. Ponterotto also acknowledges his faculty colleagues and students at Fordham University for their roles in the evolution of his professional career, particularly his interest in qualitative research and how it can inform multicultural counseling. Since his arrival in 1987, Dr. Ponterotto cites Fordham leaders such as Leo Goldman and Merle Keitel for creating an academic environment that emphasized qualitative research. He also thanks his students, especially those he mentored in his early career, for shedding light on how these methods can be administered to thoroughly learn about a specific multicultural population while also generating a sense of social justice that honors and benefits the research participants as well as advancing science. Career Ponterotto is a tenured professor with over 30 years of teaching and administrative experience in the field of psychology. From 1985 until 1987 he held the position of assistant professor in Counseling Psychology within the Department of Educational Psychology at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. In 1987, he joined Fordham University's Graduate School of Education as an assistant professor of Counseling Psychology in the Division of Psychological and Educational Services (PES). Over the years at Fordham he was promoted to Associate and then Full Professor and has held a number of administrative positions. Presently, he coordinates the master's degree program in Mental Health Counseling. Ponterotto primarily teaches Master's and Doctoral students from a vast range of programs, such as; school psychology, clinical psychology, mental health counseling, school counseling, and counseling psychology. He regularly teaches courses in multicultural counseling, psychological measurement and assessment, career counseling, quantitative/qualitative research methods, and history of psychology. Counseling and supervision Ponterotto's professional work as a clinician started in 1981 when he saw his first clients while a graduate student at the University of California, Santa Barbara. In 1984 he attained the position of Clinic Coordinator and Supervisor of the Counseling Psychology Training Clinic at the University of California, Santa Barbara. In 1985, he became a counselor and supervisor at the Educational Psychology Training Clinic for the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and was later promoted to Director from 1986 to 1987. In 2008, he