Lena Hall received a M.Ed. in Psychological Counseling and Rehabilitation from Teachers College, Columbia University and a Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology from the University of Florida. She is an Associate Professor of Psychology at Nova Southeastern University, which she joined in 1992. Her Ph.D. training included a minor in cross-cultural psychology. Over the past 20 years, she has been involved in multicultural psychology in her private practice, seminars, workshops, research, and course development, including an online course she developed, Issues in Multicultural Psychology.