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Learning objectives:
  • Based on APA’s ethics code, describe three ways advocacy is an ethical imperative
  • Describe at least three effective advocacy actions psychologists can easily take to promote an important interest
  • Describe best practices in communicating persuasively with policymakers and basics of story-telling in an advocacy context.
  • Describe at least two actionable steps that can be taken to broaden one’s advocacy impact through social media.

Our SpeakerS

ANDREW STRICKLAND
APA Senior Legislative and Regulatory Council

A native of rural eastern North Carolina, Andrew Strickland graduated from the University of North Carolina School of Law in 2007. After a brief stint in private practice, Andrew began his advocacy career as a civil rights litigator to enforce the rights of people with serious mental illness and other disabilities—first in 2009 with Disability Rights North Carolina in Raleigh, NC, and later in 2013 with AARP Foundation in Washington, DC. Andrew joined the lobbying staff of the American Psychiatric Association in 2017, and later joined the American Psychological Association in June 2020, where he currently serves as its Senior Legislative and Regulatory Counsel. Andrew’s current advocacy focus includes rural health, telehealth, digital therapeutics, Medicaid, and disability-related policy.


DORIS PARFAITE-CLAUDE
Director of Grassroots Engagement
Doris Parfaite-Claude is the Director of Grassroots Engagement with APA’s Advocacy Office, where she is charged with growing and strengthening APA’s grassroots network. Prior to that, she served as Federal Advocacy and Research Manager at the ANCOR, working on disability issues. Before that, she worked as a Legislative Assistant for the NALEO Educational Fund on issues including immigration reform and voting rights. Doris has a Master of Public Policy degree from Georgetown University and an undergraduate degree in Politics from Brandeis University.
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