Sesh (About the Blogger)

Àdisà Àjàmú is the Executive Director of the Atunwa Collective, a community development think tank located in Atlanta, GA and Amílcar Cabral Research Fellow at the Institute for the Advanced Study of Black Family Life and Culture based in Oakland, CA. Àdisà served as the founding program manager for the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Agency Minority Fellowship Program (SAMHSA/MFP) where he was responsible for the design, development and implementation of the Minority Fellowship Program for the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy and as the founding program manager for CEMRATT Grants in the Office of Ethnic Minority Affairs (OEMA) at the American Psychological Association (APA).

He has served on the faculties of San Francisco State University and Virginia Commonwealth University, served as an educational consultant for the State of California at the Center for Applied Cultural Studies and Educational Achievement at San Francisco State University and as the Principal Investigator (PI) and/or chief grant writer on federal grants totaling nearly $2.5 million dollars.

Àdisà brings to the blog a wide range of professional and community service experiences. In that regard, he has served ABPsi in number of capacities: as special assistant to two ABPsi Presidents (Drs. Wade W. Nobles and Thomas A. Parham), as a Professional Advisor to the ABPSI Student Circle and as the founding Chairperson of the ABPsi Student Circle. Àdisà was first recipient of the ABPSI Outstanding Student Scholar Award.

He is the co-author, along with Thomas Parham and Joseph White, two of the leading lights in the field, of two highly influential books on African (American) Psychology: The Psychology of Blacks: an African Centered Perspective, 3rd ed. (1999) and The Psychology of Blacks: Centering our perspectives in the African consciousness, 4th ed., (2010) as well as a scholarly essays, articles, book reviews and book chapters on African (American) life and culture. Àdisà is currently in the process of completing two books, an intellectual history of Black Psychology and a collection of essays on African American life and culture. 

Among his varied interest are the social, ethnic and cultural relativity of social science; African and Latin American literature, art and history; systems theory; African psychological perspectives; African and Afri-diasporan spiritual systems, and Atlantic World Studies and HIV/AIDS intervention and prevention in West and Southern Africa.

He is the proud son of Evelyn and John Mackey (ancestor).