Professional Activities

Dr. Andi specializes in liberation psychology praxis, healing and belonging for members of the Global Majority, the effects of racism and racial trauma on psychological well-being, and decolonial, emancipatory, and feminist methodologies. She provides a range of culturally-grounded, evidence-based mental health services for individuals, organizations, and providers, offering a collaborative and personalized approach to meeting your goals.

If you are seeking professional consultation, community work, or training services, please do reach out so we can create something meaningful together:

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Community Presentations & Workshops

Liberation Psychology Praxis: Out of Our Classroom, Into Our Community (June 2025) - interactive workshop for students, faculty, and community members via the Institute for the Study of Race and Culture, Boston, MA

Facilitating Belonging for Global Majority Students in PWIs (November 2024) - presentation for BIPOC graduate students and faculty members through the Institute for the Study of Race and Culture, Boston College, Boston, MA 

Police safety for individuals with autism spectrum disorder (April 2021) - Community outreach presentation at The Autism Program of Illinois, Champaign, IL

Community Work & Service Organizations

Co-Developer and Co-Trainer: Co-developed a community-based group intervention for Asians and Asian Americans across Los Angeles to heal from anti-Asian racism, rooted in the Psychology of Radical Healing Framework alongside fellow Asian American psychologists Dr. Anne Saw, Dr. Grace Chen, and Dr. Sherry Wang. This project was funded by the Transformative Grant under the California Department of Social Services and in partnership with AAPI Equity Alliance (2022-present). Read more about our Healing Our People through Engagement (HOPE) intervention here. 

Task Force Member: APA Presidential Task Force for Decolonizing and Liberation of Psychology under Dr. Thema Bryant (2022 - 2024) - culminated in our recently published Special Issue in the American Psychologist: Practicing Decolonial and Liberation Psychologies, which you can read more about here.

Selected Publications (Full Listings: Google Scholar, ResearchGate)

Lee, B.A., Santana, M. C., Harrell, S.P., & Comas-Díaz, L. (2025). Decolonial alchemy: From oppression to liberation. In S. Bhatia, J.S. Fernández, C.C. Sonn (Eds.), Decolonial Psychology: Academic and Activist Perspectives. Routledge. 

Garrison, Y. L., Tang, S. S., & Lee, B. A. (2024). Liberation psychology perspectives for Asian American clients. Journal of Health Service Psychology. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42843-024-00098-z

Neville, H. N., Lee, B. A., & Maghsoodi, A. H. (2024). Decolonizing psychological sciences for liberation. In L. Comas-Díaz, H.Y. Adames, & N.Y. Chavez-Dueñas (Eds.), Decolonial Psychology: Theory, Research, and Practice. American Psychological Association.

*Lee, B. A. & Neville, H. A. (2024). The iBelong scale: Construction and validation of a measure of racial-ethnic-cultural belonging. Journal of Counseling Psychology. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/cou0000716

*This article was selected as the APA Editor’s Choice Article Feature in March 2024, and won both the APA Division 45 Distinguished Student Research Award and American Board of Professional Psychology Arthur Nezu Diversity Dissertation Award.

Lee, B. A., Neville, H. A., Hoang, T. M. H., Ogunfemi, N., & ParDane, A. N. (2023). Coming home: A grounded theory analysis of racial-ethnic-cultural (REC) belonging for students of color. Journal of Diversity in Higher Education. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/dhe0000520

Hoang, T. M. H., Lee, B. A., Hsieh, W. W., Lukacena, K. M., & Tabb-Dina, K. (2023). Experiences of racial trauma among perinatal women of color in seeking healthcare services. General Hospital Psychiatry. Advance online publication.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.genhosppsych.2023.06.015

Neville, H. A., Ruedas-Gracia, N., Lee, B. A., Ogunfemi, N., Maghsoodi, A. H., Mosley, D. V., LaFromboise, T. D., & Fine, M. (2021). The public psychology for liberation training model: A call to transform the discipline. American Psychologist, 76(8), 1248-1265. https://doi.org/10.1037/amp0000887

Lee, B. A., Ogunfemi, N., Neville, H. A., & Tettegah, S. (2021). Resistance and restoration: Healing methodologies for the Global Majority. Cultural Diversity & Ethnic Minority Psychology. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/cdp0000394

Selected Presentations:

Lee, B.A., Das, A., Kaneshiro, C., & Lei, Q. (2024, June). Virtual Counterspaces as Sites of Collective Resistance and Connection for AAPI Students. Panel offered at the Division 35, Section 5 Conference for Asian Pacific Feminist Psychologists, Ala Moana, Hawaii, United States. 

Lee, B.A., Neville, H.A., Tettegah, S. (2023, November). Healing Research Methodologies for the Global Majority. Invited talk for the CUNY Diversity Science Initiative – Theory and Methods Conversation, Virtual, United States.

Lee, B. A., Santana, M., Comas-Díaz, L., & Harrell, S. P. (2023, August). Decolonial Alchemy: Testimonios of the Emergence of Liberatory Psychological Practice, Research, and Teaching. [Invited Panelist for the APA Presidential Convention Hour]. American Psychological Association Convention 2023, Washington, D.C., United States. 

Neville, H. A., Lee, B. A., Ogunfemi, N., & Safir, S. (2022, November). Creating Sites of Radical Healing: Implications for Psychology. Presentation at the 2022 Diversity Challenge Conference hosted by Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, United States. 

Yi, J., Lee, B. A., Atkin, A., & Saw, A. (2022, October). Fostering Community Healing and Interracial Solidarity: Scholarship on Dismantling the Model Minority Myth and Anti-Blackness among Asian Americans. Workshop symposium presented at the Asian American Psychological Association National Convention 2022, Chicago, Illinois, United States. 

Mosley, D.V., Adomako, F.Y., Lee, B.A., & Wheeler, W.M. (2022, September). Wellness, Equity, and Liberation (WEL) Workshop. Workshop facilitated with the WELLS Healing Center and sponsored by the NSF Centers for Chemical Innovation (CCI) Program, Virtual, United States. 

Lee, B. A. (2022, March). REC Belonging: A Novel Theory and Framework Illustrating Community Psychology in Action [Invited talk]. UIUC Introduction to Community Psychology, Champaign, IL, United States.

Gonzalez, K., Abreu, R., Lee, B. A., Green, J., Wang, S., Fitzgerald, D., Neville, H. A., & Singh, A. (2021, January). BIPOC solidarity: A difficult dialogue about anti-Black racism. Workshop symposium facilitated at the National Multicultural Conference & Summit (NMCS) 2021, Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States. 

Podcast Episodes

Alongside co-liberators, Dr. Andi has co-hosted a few episodes of the Liberation Now podcast, covering topics including Storytelling as a form of Liberation with Drs. Matt Miller and Helen Neville (May 2025), the ways we practice and apply radical hope in our personal lives and community work through the Psychology of Radical Hope framework with Drs. Della Mosley, Briana Williams, and Helen Neville (April 2022), and what it means to be in solidarity as People of the Global Majority alongside Drs. Amir Maghsoodi, Briana Williams, Hector Adames, Kevin Nadal, and Melissa Tehee (April 2021). They also hosted a group conversation around the Psychology of Radical Healing framework alongside co-liberators: Drs. Amir Maghsoodi, Briana Williams, Cherese Waight, Danyelle Dawson, Markera Jones, Nimot Ogunfemi, and Richmond Hayes and how we understand, apply, and help others engage in this framework (February 2021).