page_title: Kevin Nadal
section_title: Education & academic career
hierarchical_section_title: Kevin Nadal / Education & academic career
caption_attribution_description: English: Dr. Kevin Nadal speaking at the White House Filipino American History Month Celebration in 2016
context_page_description: Kevin Nadal is an author, activist, comedian, and professor of psychology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and The Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He is a researcher and expert on the effects of microaggressions on racial/ ethnic minorities and LGBTQ people. He is a contributor to the Huffington Post and Buzzfeed.
context_section_description: Nadal received Bachelor's degrees in psychology and political science from the University of California, Irvine, a Master's degree in counseling from Michigan State University, as well as a Ph.D. in counseling psychology from Columbia University. During his time at Columbia, Nadal was mentored by psychologist Derald Wing Sue. He is currently a full professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and The Graduate Center, CUNY.
  From 2014 to 2017, Nadal was appointed as the Executive Director of CLAGS: the Center for LGBTQ Studies (formerly known as Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies). From 2015 to 2017, Nadal became the president of the Asian American Psychological Association. In the organization, Nadal also co-founded the Division on Filipino Americans. Nadal is a national trustee of the Filipino American National Historical Society.
  Nadal's book Filipino American Psychology: A Handbook of Theory, Research, and Clinical Practice was noted for being the first comprehensive book on Filipino American mental health issues. Nadal has gone on to release other books on the topic.
  Nadal's research and writings concentrate on race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender, and the concept of racial microaggressions, and other microaggressions or subtle forms of discrimination towards racial/ethnic minorities, women, and LGBTQ populations. He created and published the Racial and Ethnic Microaggressions Scale in the Journal of Counseling Psychology in 2011. Nadal has also researched "sexual orientation microaggressions" In 2013, Nadal released That's So Gay!' Microaggressions and the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Community.
  In April 2015, Nadal received John Jay College's Scholarly Excellence Award. In October 2015, Nadal was named one of the Outstanding Filipino Americans of New York for his work in education and research.
caption: Dr. Kevin Nadal speaking at the White House Filipino American History Month Celebration in 2016
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