Dr. Melanie Wilcox

 Melanie M. Wilcox, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychological Sciences and Institute of Public and Preventive Health at Augusta University. She earned her Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology at the University at Albany in 2015, her Bachelor of Arts in Psychology at Cedar Crest College in Allentown, PA in 2009, and her Associate of Science in Psychology at Lehigh Carbon Community College in 2007. Her research focuses on culturally responsive psychotherapy and psychotherapist training; racial and economic inequity in higher education; and factors associated with racist attitudes for White people. In 2020, she served as the Chair of the American Psychological Association's Board of Educational Affairs.