Annie Lee Jones, PhD is a clinical psychologist and Psychoanalyst. At The Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research (IPTAR), she is a Fellow, supervisor, member of the Board, and also a Co-Chair of the Arts and Society Committee. She is teaching faculty at Adelphi University, NYU postdoctoral program in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, The Center for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies, and The Stephen Mitchell Relational Study Center. She is also a member of Black Psychoanalysts Speak, Inc.

Her community work is both clinic based and in her private practice in Queens, NY.

She has published several articles relevant to the everyday lived experiences of Black women as well as on the impact of antiblack policies on Black Americans. She is currently writing a series of short stories about the life of her paternal grandmother who was born into and freed from slavery in rural Georgia.

Betty Teng, LCSW, MFA, is a psychoanalyst and trauma therapist who has worked with survivors of political torture, sexual assault, domestic violence and childhood sexual molestation at Mount Sinai Beth Israel’s Victims Services Program in Manhattan, and at the Bellevue / NYU Langone Program for Survivors of Torture. She is co-founder and co-host of the psycho-political podcast, Mind of State, a project which emerged out of her collaborations as a co-author of the New York Times bestseller, The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump. Betty has spoken and written on trauma and its social, political and psychological impacts for various conferences and media outlets, including Slate and Vox. She is a contributing essayist in Adam Phillips' book, The Cure for Psychoanalysis. Currently, Betty teaches and supervises at the Manhattan Institute for Psychoanalysis and she sees adults and couples in private practice.

Dr. George Bermudez, Psychologist-Psychoanalyst, Training & Supervising Psychoanalyst at The Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis (ICP) Los Angeles,  and 2020-21 Visiting Scholar at the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California (PINC) has developed pioneering scholarship and practice –an expansion toward a social psychoanalysis–exploring the “social unconscious” through “social dreaming”.  The author of “The Social Dreaming Matrix as a Container for the Processing of Implicit Racial Bias and Collective Racial Trauma”  (International Journal of Group Psychotherapy, 2018) and “Community Psychoanalysis: A Contribution to an Emerging Paradigm” (Psychoanalytic Inquiry, 2019),  he has focused on numerous contemporary socio-political concerns:  American Xenophobia;  Whiteness and Psychoanalysis; Black Reparations; The LGBTQ Unconscious in the Trumpian Era; and The Global Unconscious in the Time of  Pandemic. Dr. Bermudez’ most recent work focuses on the applications of social dreaming to the discovery of potential solutions to our climate crisis and the development of “deliberative democracy”.

Kimberlyn Leary is a senior vice president, managing research and program development across the Urban Institute. She comes to Urban from Harvard University, where she is an associate professor of psychology at Harvard Medical School, an associate professor in the department of health policy and management at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and a lecturer in public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. For four years, she directed the Enabling Change program for the Doctor of Public Health program at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Leary also served as executive director of policy outreach and of the Center of Excellence in Women’s Mental Health at McLean Hospital. Before that, she was chief psychologist at the Cambridge Health Alliance for nearly 12 years.

Leary served as an advisor to the White House during the Obama administration. As a Robert Wood Johnson health policy fellow, she helped launch the Advancing Equity initiative for the Obama White House Council on Women and Girls. She was also an advisor to the health division at White House Office of Management and Budget and senior policy advisor to the Office of National Drug Control Policy. Leary served on the Biden-Harris transition as a volunteer part-time member of the Agency Review Team for the Office of National Drug Control Policy in the Executive Office of the President.

Leary writes, consults, and teaches on adaptive leadership, leading teams, cross-boundary collaboration, negotiation, and conflict transformation. She holds an MPA from the Harvard Kennedy School and a PhD in clinical psychology from the University of Michigan, and she completed advanced training as a clinical psychoanalyst at the Michigan Psychoanalytic Association. Leary serves on the board of trustees at Amherst College, the Austen Riggs Center, and the Boston Psychoanalytic Institute and serves as an advisor to Pivotal Ventures and the Upswing Fund. Additionally, she serves as a judge for the McArthur Foundation.

Mark J. Blechner, Ph.D. is Training and Supervising Analyst at the William Alanson White Institute. He is the author of the books "Sex Changes: Transformations in Society and Psychoanalysis" and "Hope and Mortality: Psychodynamic Approaches to AIDS and HIV." He has established scholarships to fund the psychoanalytic training of transgender candidates and candidates of color.

S.J. Langer is a writer and psychotherapist in New York City and Mexico City, where he maintains a private practice. He is on faculty at School of Visual Arts in both the MPS Art Therapy and Humanities & Sciences departments. Along with psychotherapy, he provides clinical supervision and is a WPATH GEI SOC7 Certified Mentor. His research lab studies embodiment and trans phantoms. He is part of the Faculty of Psychology at Universidad Diego Portales - Centre for Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy Studies (Centro de Estudios en Psicología Clínica y Psicoterapia - CEPPS) in Santiago, Chile for their Diploma in Psychotherapy and Mental Health in Sexual Diversity of Gender and Relationships (Diplomado en Psicoterapia y salud mental en diversidad sexual de género y de Relaciones). One of his articles, Trans Bodies and the Failure of Mirrors, was the co-winner of the Symonds Prize from Studies in Gender and Sexuality. He is included in the edited volume Sex, Sexuality and Trans Identities and Intersectionality in the Arts Psychotherapy. His first book Theorizing Transgender Identity for Clinical Practice: A New Model for Understanding Gender was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in 2020.

Shinhee Han, PhD is a senior psychotherapist at the New School University Counseling Service and in private practice in New York City. She is an adjunct professor at the Center for Study of Ethnicity and Race, Columbia University, offering courses on Asian Americans, Race, and Psychoanalysis. She is the co-author of Racial Melancholia, Racial Dissociation: On the Social and Psychic Lives of Asian Americans, co-authored with David Eng, published 2019 by Duke University Press. She is also a founding member of the Asian Women Giving Circle in NYC, a philanthropic organization that funds Asian women artists creating social activism and change. Previously, she was a therapist at the University of Chicago, Northwestern University, Barnard College and Columbia University.

Usha Tummala-Narra, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist and the Director of Community-Based Education at the Albert and Jessie Danielsen Institute and Research Professor in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Boston University. Her research and scholarship focus on immigration, trauma, race, and culturally-informed psychoanalytic psychotherapy. Her publications include over 90 peer-reviewed articles and chapters in books. She is also in Independent Practice, and works primarily with survivors of trauma from diverse sociocultural backgrounds. Dr. Tummala-Narra is an Associate Editor of Psychoanalytic Dialogues and the Asian American Journal of Psychology. She is the author of Psychoanalytic Theory and Cultural Competence in Psychotherapy (2016) and the editor of Trauma and Racial Minority Immigrants: Turmoil, Uncertainty, and Resistance (2021), both published by the American Psychological Association Books.