Ena Vazquez-Nuttall

Born: 1937 in Salinas, Puerto Rico
Died: October 20, 2011 in Newton, Washington

Education and Work

Received Bachelor’s degree from University of Puerto Rico.
Received Master’s degree from Radcliffe College.
Received EdD in counseling and school psychology from Boston University.
Directed the school Psychology program at Northeastern University.
For 10 years she held the Dean position for graduate studies at the Bouve College of Health Sciences.
She also worked as the assistant dean of multicultural education and as a professor.

She founded the first doctoral program at Massachusetts-Amherst and the second at Northeastern University in Boston.
She advocated for and promoted the importance of cultural diversity before it was considered a significant issue.
Her writings, especially “Multicultural Counseling Competencies: Individual Organizational Development”, have had a major impact on APA policies and practices today.
She was a fellow of APA’s Division 16, served on many committees, and chaired the Training and Education Group of the Commission on Ethnic Minority Recruitment, Retention and Training in Psychology.