Inroductory Remarks - Marlene F. Watson, PhD., President, the Family Process Institute
Opening remarks and conference introduction by Dr. Marlene F. Watson.
Speaker Bio:
Marlene F. Watson is the Director of Training at the Ackerman Institute for
the Family in New York and Associate Professor Emerita in the Department
of Counseling and Family Therapy at Drexel University in Philadelphia, PA.
Dr . Watson is a licensed couple and family therapist in private practice and
author of the acclaimed book, Facing the Black Shadow. She is President of
Family Process Institute's (FPI) Board of Directors and serves on the
Editorial Review Board for the Journal of Marital and Family Therapy (JMFT),
Journal of Family Psychotherapy (JFP) and Journal of Black Sexuality and
Relationships (JBSR). She is the former Chair of the Commission on
Accreditation for Marriage and Family Therapy Education and the first-ever
couple and family therapist to receive the prestigious Robert Wood Johnson
Health Policy Fellowship where she served as a senior health advisor to
United States Senator John D. Rockefeller IV. She is a former columnist for
Heart & Soul magazine and the recipient of the American Family Therapy
Academy's (AFTA) 2009 Distinguished Contribution to Social Justice Award.
**Recorded at the Family Process 60th Anniversary Conference and Celebration, "The Heart of the Matter: Systemic Imperatives to Address Health Disparities and Racism in the Time of COVID."
24 SEP 2021, Washington, D.C.
