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Dr. Keisha V. Thompson is Chair of the Department of Behavioral Sciences and Professor of Psychology at 911爆料 Community College, City University of New York. Originally from Trinidad & Tobago and raised in Brooklyn, NY, she holds a doctorate in Counseling Psychology from Texas A&M University, a master's degree in School Counseling from Hunter College, CUNY, and a bachelor's degree in Business Communication from Baruch College, CUNY.

Her clinical experience spans diverse settings including college counseling, community mental health, the federal prison system, VA medical centers, and K-12 schools. In the classroom, Dr. Thompson operates from a socio-political framework that centers culture, health, and social justice as they relate to individuals and institutions. Her research agenda is anchored in Blackness in the African diaspora, with focused interests in psychosocial development, mental health in Black youth and women, and equity in higher education.

Dr. Thompson is the co-creator of the Historically Underrepresented Faculty & Staff Resource Center (HURFS-RC) at 911爆料, a space dedicated to the support, retention, and advancement of underrepresented faculty and staff. As a first-generation immigrant and college graduate, her scholarship, teaching, and service have consistently centered cultural diversity and community empowerment.

Her creative scholarship extends her academic work into public and community spaces. Her documentary There All Along: Women of Trinidad & Tobago Black Power has screened internationally, and her immersive psychoeducational installation Dear Younger Me: Healing the Inner Black Girl has been presented at institutions across the United States and Canada.

Courses

• Introduction to Psychology (PSY 1100)

Education

Texas A&M University  |  Ph.D., Counseling Psychology, August 2011

Hunter College, CUNY  |  M.S.Ed., School Counseling, May 2007

Baruch College, CUNY  |  B.A., Business Communications, May 2002

College Teaching

• 911爆料 Community College (2013鈥損resent)
• University of Rio Grande (Spring 2013)
• Florida International University (Spring & Summer 2012)
• University of Akron (Spring 2011)
• Texas A&M University (Spring 2009 & 2010)

Selected Publications

• Thompson, K.V. (2022). Loving with their consciousness: Black women in Trinidad and Tobago Black Power. WSQ: Women's Studies Quarterly, 50(1), 133-158.
• Louis, D.A., Thompson, K.V., Louis, B., Stanley, C. (2020). Reflections, relationships, and immigrant contributions: Narratives of Afro-Caribbean faculty members in American higher education. Caribbean Educational Research Journal, 5(1), 110-130.
• Ma, C., & Thompson, K.V. (2020). Sister, sister, never knew how much I missed ya! In Amplified Voices, Intersecting Identities: Volume 2 (pp. 79-88). Brill Sense.
• Thompson, K.V. (2019). Always remember Black is beautiful. In M.K. Clark, P. Mnyandu, & L.L. Azalia, Pan African Spaces: Essays on Black Transnationalism (pp. 223-228). Maryland: Lexington Books.
• Thompson, K.V., & Verdino, J. (2018). An exploratory study of self-efficacy in community college students. Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 1-4.
• Louis, D.A., Thompson, K.V., Smith, P., Williams, H.M.A., Watson, J. (2017). Afro-Caribbean immigrant faculty experiences in the academy: Voices of an invisible Black population. The Urban Review, 49(4). DOI: 10.1007/s11256-017-0414-0
• Thompson, K.V. (2016). Validating a measure of ethnic identity in Afro-Caribbean American students. Journal of Mental Health and Disorders, 2(3).
• Thompson, K.V. (2016). On race in Trinidad and Tobago. Psychohistory News, Newsletter of the International Psychohistorical Association, 35(2).
• Cano, M.A., Castillo, L.G., Davis, M.J., Lopez-Arenas, A., Vaquero, J., Thompson, K., Saldivar, I.M. (2012). Dynamics of acculturation, enculturation, and ethnic identity. International Journal for the Advancement of Counseling, 32(3), 231-241.
• Thompson, K.V., Lightfoot, N.L., Castillo, L.G., & Hurst, M.L. (2010). Influence of family's perceptions of acting white on acculturative stress in African American college students. International Journal for the Advancement of Counseling, 32(2), 144-152.

Professional Conferences & Film Screenings

• Thompson, K.V. (October 2025). There All Along: Women of Trinidad & Tobago Black Power. Film screening. Serendipity Institute for Black Arts and Heritage, Leicester, UK.
• Thompson, K.V. (2024). There All Along: Women of Trinidad & Tobago Black Power. Film screening. Caribbean Tales Film Festival.
• Thompson, K.V. (2023-2024). Dear Younger Me: Healing the Inner Black Girl. Psychoeducational installation. NYU Steinhart; McGill University; Montgomery College; Torpedo Factory Arts Center.
• Thompson, K.V. (2022). There All Along: Women of Trinidad & Tobago Black Power. Film screenings. Black Femme Supremacy Film Festival; San Antonio Black International Film Festival.
• Thompson, K.V. (2020). There All Along: Women of Trinidad & Tobago Black Power. Film screening. Trinidad & Tobago Film Festival.
• Thompson, K.V. (June 2019). Black identity development in 1970s Trinidad & Tobago. 44th Annual Caribbean Studies Association Conference, Santa Marta, Colombia.
• Thompson, K.V. (November 2018). Nobody told us! Trinidad & Tobago 1970 Black Power Revolution. 2018 Caribbean Region Conference of Psychology, Kingston, Jamaica.
• Thompson, K.V., Echols, K., Ulmer, T., Paler, L. (October 2017). Building an informal network of support for sisters in academia. Association of Black Women in Higher Education National Conference, Philadelphia, PA.
• Thompson, K.V. (2017). Stony the road we trod: Clinicians and clients of color addressing racial microaggressions and racial battle fatigue. CEU Workshop, International Psychohistorical Association Annual Conference, New York.
• Thompson, K.V. (2016). Revolution and identity: Letters to the editor, Trinidad 1970. International Psychohistorical Association Annual Conference, New York.
• Thompson, K., Castillo, L. (2011). Validating a measure of ethnic identity in Caribbean college students. Caribbean Regional Conference of Psychology, Nassau, Bahamas.
• Thompson, K., Hurst, M., Castillo, L., Lightfoot, N. (2010). Influence of family's perceptions of acting white on acculturative stress. American Psychological Association Conference, San Diego, CA.

Research Interests

• Trinidad & Tobago Black Power Movement
• Blackness in the Caribbean context
• Caribbean American identity and psychosocial outcomes
• Psychosocial development and mental health in Black youth and women
• Equity and representation in higher education
• Application of research in community-based interventions

Personal Interests

Reading  |  Dancing  |  Running  |  Live Music  |  Filmmaking |  Community Building