Ena Vazquez-Nuttall
Born: 1937 in Salinas, Puerto Rico
Died: October 20, 2011 in Newton, Washington
Education and Work
- Received Bachelor’s degree from University of Puerto Rico.
- Received Master’s degree from Radcliffe College.
- Received EdD in counseling and school psychology from Boston University.
- Directed the school Psychology program at Northeastern University.
- For 10 years she held the Dean position for graduate studies at the Bouve College of Health Sciences.
- She also worked as the assistant dean of multicultural education and as a professor.
Contributions and Accomplishments
- She founded the first doctoral program at Massachusetts-Amherst and the second at Northeastern University in Boston.
- She advocated for and promoted the importance of cultural diversity before it was considered a significant issue.
- Her writings, especially “Multicultural Counseling Competencies: Individual Organizational Development”, have had a major impact on APA policies and practices today.
- She was a fellow of APA’s Division 16, served on many committees, and chaired the Training and Education Group of the Commission on Ethnic Minority Recruitment, Retention and Training in Psychology.