Linda M. Woolf, Ph.D.

The American Psychological Association (APA) last week announced that Linda M. Woolf, Ph.D., a professor of psychology and international human rights at Webster University in St. Louis, Missouri, has been elected 2027 president of the APA. Woolf will bring more than three decades of leadership, scholarship and advocacy to the role. She is widely recognized for her work on ethics, social justice, mass political violence and global human rights, an APA news release stated. Her teaching and research span topics such as Holocaust education, LGBTQIA+ rights, peace psychology and the psychosocial roots of violence. Woolf's extensive service to APA includes two terms on the APA Council of Representatives, presidencies of Division 2 (Society for the Teaching of Psychology) and Division 48 (Society for the Study of Peace, Conflict, and Violence) and membership on key committees such as the Ethics Code Task Force and the Committee for Global Psychology. She also chaired the Member-Initiated Task Force to Reconcile Policies Related to Psychologists' Involvement in National Security Settings and co-chaired the Indigenous Apology Work Group.