Evan Auguste
Evan Auguste, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of Massachusetts Boston. He completed his Ph.D. in clinical psychology with a major area of focus in forensic psychology at Fordham University in 2022. Auguste is a 2014 graduate of Middlebury College.
His identities as a Haitian-African American man have informed his work on examining how the U.S.’s history of anti-Blackness has shaped psychological realities both in and outside of the country’s borders. He is the director of the A.S.I.L.I. Collective, a research group whose work focuses broadly on addressing the mental health consequences of structural anti-Blackness through the lens of Black liberation psychology. Their research involves community participatory, qualitative, and quantitative methods to examine the effects of disparate exposure to justice-contact for Black adolescents and intergenerational traumas for Haitian people. They also focus on developing and piloting anti-carceral and community based health interventions, such as the Association of Black Psychologists' Sawubona Healing Circles to promote healing from an African-centered framework. Our advocacy involves connecting with local, national, and international coalitions to promote policy, radical movement, and community change. He is currently the chair for the Sawubona Healing Circle Program, on the board for the Institute for the Development of Human Arts, and on the leadership team for In Cultured Company.
For his work, Dr. Auguste has received numerous awards including the Santander International Internship Fellowship, the Association of Black Psychologists President’s Service Award, selection to the American Psychological Association’s Minority Fellowship Program’s Psychological Summer Institute, a Coalition of Ethnic and Racial Psychological Associations Leadership Institute Development Fellowship, William Trotter Institute's Restorative Justice Fellowships, and the Haitian Apostolate Inc. Distinguished Speaker Award, among others.
