College of Education and Human Development

Center for the Study of Lives

Derald Wing Sue

Dr. Derald Wing Sue is an Asian-American counseling psycholigst from California State University, Hayward and the California School of Professional Psychology, Alameda, and a pioneer in the field of multicultural counseling and therapy.  He has done extensive multicultual research and writing in psychology and education, long before it was made a priority by the academic community.  Two of his books, Counseling the Culturally Different: Theory and Practice and Counseling American Minorities: A Cross Cultural Perspective, are considered the most frequently cited works in the multicultural field.  He recently addressed President Clinton's Race Advisory Board on the National Dialogue on Race, and has been called "the most influential multicultural scholar in the United States."