Dr. Michele Schlehofer is a Professor of Psychology at Salisbury University in Salisbury, Maryland. She earned her PhD in Applied Social Psychology in 2007 from Claremont Graduate University, in Claremont, California. Trained in the Lewinian tradition of action-research, her expertise is on community-engaged research methodologies, including participatory action-research. She has an extensive record of community engagement, scholar-activism, public policy, and organizing experience. Dr. Schlehofer holds Fellows status in APA Divisions 9 (Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues) and 44 (Society for the Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity), a membership designation reserved for psychologists whose work has had national or international impact.