Meet The Team

Dr. Wingate joined the OSU faculty in 2006. She is currently the only Black female Full Professor on the OSU campus. She regularly teaches Black Psychology and Positive Psychology. Dr. Wingate is on sabbatical for the 2021-2022 school year.

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Dr. Wingate does anticipate reviewing graduate student applications to join her lab for Fall 2022.

Deja is originally from NY and she received her B.A. from West Virginia University. Her research interests are risk and resilience factors of suicide in African American women.
dejclem@okstate.edu

Vanessa is a Clinical Psychology doctoral student from Southern California and an HBCU alum (Go Rattlers)! Vanessa is invested in combining African/Black Psychology and African American Studies to better understand and identify culturally specific methods for healing.

vanessa.oliphant@okstate.edu

Funke is a Clinical Psychology doctoral student from Nigeria. She received her MA in Community Psychology – Clinical Services from the University of New Haven, Connecticut. Her research interests are in exploring the risk and protective factors that can be found within Black and African American communities that can be used to mitigate suicidality and other mental health disorders amongst the population.

olufunke.benson@okstate.edu