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Helen A. Neville is a professor of educational psychology and African-American studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, where she has taught since 2001. She previously served on the faculty of the University of Missouri, where she was the co-founder and co-director of the Center for Multicultural Research, Training, and Consultation. She received the Association of Black Psychologists' Distinguished Psychologist of the Year Award in 2011 and was a Fulbright Scholar in Tanzania in 2015–2016. She served as president of the 45th Division of the American Psychological Association, [https://www.apa.org/about/division/div45#:~:text=Division%2045%3A%20Society%20for%20the,knowledge%20to%20ethnic%20minority%20issues. the Society for the Psychological Study of Culture, Ethnicity, and Race], in 2018.

Early Education
Dr. Helen A. Neville earned her B.A. at California State University, Northridge, where she majored in psychology and graduated with magna cum laude in 1986. She then continued her education at the same institution, earning her M.A. in clinical/community psychology in 1988. Dr. Neville furthered her education at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she earned her Ph.D. in counseling psychology in 1993.

Career
Dr. Neville’s research focuses on three main areas of interest: color-blind racial ideology, racial identity attitudes, and race-related stress. All three of these areas are interrelated by race, and she focuses on how people interpret race and the consequences of these interpretations. Dr. Neville focuses on exploring questions like "What factors are related to decreases in color-blind racial beliefs over time? What individual and contextual factors are associated with expressions of color-blind racial beliefs? In what ways do Black individuals develop a sense of racial pride within color-blind racial contexts?". Recently, Dr. Neville has focused on the research of radical healing for people of color's liberation. Her podcast, Liberation Now Podcast, covers many of these topics in conversations with other psychologists and scholars.

Dr. Neville "has co-edited 8 books and co-authored over 90 journal articles and book chapters in the areas of race, racism, and racial identity, and diversity issues related to well-being." Her work has appeared in journals like The Journal of Counseling Psychology, the Journal of Black Studies, the Journal of Black Psychology, and the Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology journal. From 2007 to 2009, she served as the Associate Editor for the Journal of Black Psychology and for The Counseling Psychologist from 2002 to 2007. She has served on the editorial board of a number of different journals, including the Journal of African Psychology (2012-2015), the Journal of Counseling Psychology (2005-2010), the Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology journal (2004-2008), and the Journal of Black Psychology (2004-2007). She continues to serve as an editor of The Counseling Psychologist under the "Legacy and Traditions Forum" and was recently the lead editor of The Handbook of African American Psychology.

Aside from journals, Dr. Neville served as president of the Society for the Psychological Study of Culture, Ethnicity, and Race in 2018. Additionally, she has served on the committee of the 17th Division of the APA, the Society of Counseling Psychology (2008 - 2014) and the APA's Committee on Ethnic Minority Affairs (2011 - 2013). In 2010, she became a Provost Fellow of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She has been a professor there since 2001, and teaches courses such as Counseling Psychology, Liberation Psychology, and Multicultural Psychology.

Black Racial Identity
Dr. Neville has focused on the study of Black racial identity and Black racial ideology through a majority of her career. She has specifically focused on gendered Black racial ideology multiple times. One instance is with her co-construction of the Gendered Racial Microaggressions Scale (GRMS) in 2015. This scale received the Women of Color Psychologies Award from the Association for Women in Psychology and the Outstanding Contribution to Scholarship on Race and Ethnicity Award from the 17th Division of the American Psychological Association, the [https://www.apa.org/about/division/div17#:~:text=Division%2017%3A%20Society%20of%20Counseling,public%20interest%20in%20professional%20psychology. Society of Counseling Psychology,] in 2016. Additionally, she has expanded her work outside of the United States to South Africa, as she did research on Black racial identities and urban education there. One of her more recent works in this area focuses on the development of a framework that focuses on the healing of racial trauma through storytelling, as her research has focused more on radical healing and the liberation of people of color.

Color-blind Racial Ideology
Another one of Dr. Neville’s psychological interests is the study of colorblind racial ideology. This has been a long held interest of Dr. Neville’s and she has gained several awards for her extensive work in this area. In 2013, she co-wrote the study “Racial Socialization, Color-blind Racial Ideology, and Mental Health among Black College Students” which was published in the Journal of Black Psychology and received the SAGE Research Award in 2014. This study used the ecological model of racial socialization (EMRS) to test the relationship between mental health, color-blind racial ideology (CBRI), and racial socialization messages, and found a connection between the level of color-blind racial beliefs, how a person may internalize racial socialization, and their mental health.

Two years later, Dr. Neville co-wrote the book The Myth of Racial Color Blindness: Manifestation, Dynamics, and Impact which examined the beliefs that America is a post-racial society and the wide reaching influence that CBRI has had throughout different areas of society. Some of her more recent works in this field is the 2019 study “Ideology Matters: College Students’ Emotional Reactions to the Killing of Trayvon Martin” and the 2021 study “Ethnocultural Empathy and Racial Colorblindness Among White Police Recruits: Do Cross-Racial Friendships Matter?”.

Awards
Throughout her career, Dr. Neville has been recognized for her work, mentoring, and contributions to the fields of psychology and African-American studies. In regards to her mentoring work, she has been awarded the Campus Award for Excellence in Graduate Student Mentoring from the University of Illinois at Urban-Champaign in 2010, the Janet E. Helms Award for Mentoring and Scholarship from the Annual Winter Roundtable on Cultural Psychology & Education in 2014, and the Foremothers’ Mentorship Award from the 35th Division of the APA, Section I: The Psychology of Black Women in 2018. For her research and work in the field, she has been awarded the Dalmas Taylor Award for Research from the APA Minority Fellowship Program in 2013 and the Outstanding Contribution to Scholarship on Race and Ethnicity Award from the 17th Division of the American Psychological Association, the Society of Counseling Psychology in 2016. She has earned the Association of Black Psychologists' Distinguished Psychologist of the Year award in 2014 and gained the Presidential Citation from the APA in 2019. One of her most recent awards is the 2021 Derald Wing Sue Award for Distinguished Contributions to Multicultural Counseling from the Society of Counseling Psychology. She received this award for being a counseling psychologist who has made career contributions to the advancement of the science, practice, or training in the field of multicultural counseling.