Dr. Sandra Dixon is a Registered Psychologist in Alberta and an Associate Professor of Counselling Psychology in the Faculty of Education at the University of Lethbridge. She is also a Research Affiliate of the Prentice Institute for Global Population and Economy. Dr. Dixon approaches her research from an Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) and social justice lens. She has published a wide range of work that centers around diversity, faith, immigration, cultural identity reconstruction, anti-racism education, as well as culturally appropriate and multicultural counselling.

At the community level, she currently serves on the Boards of the Psychologists’ Association of Alberta (PAA) and Alberta Network of Immigrant Women (ANIW). She was recently nominated and accepted by the PAA to be the Association’s Diversity Delegate at the 2022 Practice Leadership Conference as part of the American Psychological Association Diversity Initiative. She currently serves on the Editorial Review Board of the Alberta Journal of Educational Research (AJER).

She is the proud recipient of the Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association Research, Professional Article Award, The Professor Cecille DePass Research Award through the Farquharson Institute of Public Affairs (FIPA), and the EDI Scholar at the University of Lethbridge.

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