Wednesday 12 April 2017

Profile: Samara Lipsky

Samara Lipsky co-founded a 501(c)3 non-profit organization dedicated to helping fund and raise awareness for medically oriented organizations. Also, as a member of the Diversity Committee for Psychologists in Public Service, Division 18, she plays a key role in a group whose mission is to push members to increase the level of diversity in the group based on the definition of diversity as delineated in the Guidelines on Multicultural Education, Training, Research, Practice and Organizational Change for Psychology put forth by the American Psychological Association, and to make sure that members from diverse backgrounds are actively involved in their community.

Overall, it can almost be said that Samara Lipsky has already had a significant psychological career. She is currently a Ph.D candidate in the International Psychology program at the Chicago School of Professional Psychology (TCSPP), but that comes after she already earned an undergraduate degree in business from the Goizueta Business School at Emory University and a Masters Degree in Psychology sometime after that. Just before she began her current doctoral work, Samara also completed a two year predoctoral research fellowship at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.

Over the course of her life, Samara Lipsky has demonstrated a strong appreciation for her Jewish heritage. She graduated from the Raman School, a Modern Orthodox school on New York’s Upper East Side, which is where she grew up. In recent years, she has been a staff member with the Union for Reform Judaism. She has also been a Hebrew teacher at the Reform Temple Israel in her old neighborhood and she has tutored numerous young Jewish people preparing for their bar and bat mitzvahs.