Bertha Holliday

Biography

Bertha Garrett Holliday is a community psychologist known for her expertise on ethnic minority issues. Her work has focused on processes of child and family socialization and the academic experiences and achievement of Black youth. Holliday was Senior Director of the Office of Ethnic Minority Affairs at the American Psychological Association (APA), where she led APA's efforts to increase scientific understanding of role of culture and ethnicity in human relationships and behavior. She retired from the Office of Ethnic Minority Affairs in 2010 after 16 years of service to the APA. Holliday is a Fellow of APA Division 45 (Society for the Psychological Study of Culture, Ethnicity & Race). In 2001, she received the Distinguished Career Contribution to Service Award from APA Division 45. In 2011, she was awarded the Social Justice Action Award from Teachers College, Columbia University.

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