Frank Clayton Worrell University of California, Berkeley, USA

Frank C. Worrell, PhD, is a Professor in the Graduate School of Education at the University of California, Berkeley, where he serves as Faculty Director of the School Psychology Program, the Academic Talent Development Program, and the California College Preparatory Academy. He also holds an affiliate appointment in the Social and Personality Area in the Department of Psychology. His research interests include ethnic and racial identities, scale development, talent development, time perspective, and the translation of psychological research findings into school-based practice, and his scholarship crosses several subdisciplines of psychology, including cultural, developmental, educational, international, quantitative, school, and social and personality.

Author of more than 200 scholarly pieces, recent book publications include Achieving College Dreams: How a University-Charter District Partnership Created an Early College High-School (Oxford University Press, 2016; co-edited with Rhona S. Weinstein); Talent Development as a Framework for Gifted Education: Implications for Best Practices and Applications in Schools (Prufrock Press, 2018; co-edited with Paula Olszewski-Kubilius and Rena F. Subotnik, and winner of the 2019 National Association for Gifted Children [NAGC] Scholar Book of the Year Award); and The Psychology of High Performance: Developing Human Potential into Domain-Specific Talent (American Psychological Association, 2019; co-edited with Rena F. Subotnik and Paula Olszewski-Kubilius, and winner of the 2020 NAGC Scholar Book of the Year Award; and The Cambridge Handbook of Applied School Psychology (Cambridge University Press, 2020; co-edited with Tammy L. Hughes and Dante D. Dixson).

A member of the editorial boards of several journals, Dr. Worrell was Co-Editor and Editor of Review of Educational Research (2012–2016) and has also served on committees of the several professional associations. Dr. Worrell is a Fellow of the American Educational Research Association, the Association for Psychological Science, and Divisions 5, 15, 16, 45, and 52 of APA. He is also a member (elected) of the Society for the Study of School Psychology.  In 2011, Dr. Worrell received the Chancellor’s Award for Advancing Institutional Excellence and Equity from UC Berkeley, and was a recipient of the 2013 Distinguished Scholar Award from the National Association for Gifted Children.  In 2015, he received the Distinguished Contributions to Research Award from the Division 45 of APA (the Society for the Psychological Study of Culture, Ethnicity, and Race), and in 2016, he received the Nadine Lambert Outstanding School Psychologist (Region II) from the California Association of School Psychologists.  In 2018, he was elected to the National Academy of Education and he also received the Outstanding International Psychologist Award from Division 52 (International Psychology) of APA in that year.  He is the 2021 President-Elect of APA and will serve as APA President in 2022.