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About Maria P. P. Root
- Maria P.
- P.
- Root, Ph.D.
- (born September 13, 1955) is a clinical psychologist, educator, and public speaker based in Seattle, Washington.
- Her areas of work include multiracial families, multiracial identity, cultural competence, trauma, workplace harassment, and disordered eating.
- She is an international authority on mixed heritage identity, credited with publishing the first contemporary work on mixed-race people.
- She has presented lectures and training in various countries, both in and outside of academia. Root has edited two award-winning books on multiracial people and produced the Bill of Rights for Racially Mixed People.[1] The U.S.
- Census referred to these two texts in the deliberations that resulted in a "check one or more races" format to the race question for the 2000 census.[2] In 1997, she received the American Psychological Association (APA) Award for Distinguished Contribution to Psychology in the Public Interest.Root is a former President of the Washington State Psychological Association.
- She has served as Chair of the APA Board for the Advancement of Psychology in the Public Interest and as a member-at-large on the Board of APA Division 45 (Society for the Psychological Study of Ethnic Minority Issues).
- Currently she has her own private practice.
- She has served on the advisory council of The Association of MultiEthnic Americans and the board of advisors of The Mavin Foundation.[3][4] She co-founded the Journal for Critical Mixed Race Studies in 2011.
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