Dr. Michael B. Salzman is Professor and Chair in the Department of Educational Psychology. He has published in the areas of cross-cultural psychology, cultural psychology, intercultural training and counseling. A licensed psychologist, Michael has worked with cultural diverse populations as a teacher in “inner city” Brooklyn, counseling in the Navajo Nation, and serving as a clinician in a CMHC in South Tucson, AZ. He has worked with Alaska Natives coordinating a model rural mental health program and most recently with the Native Hawaiian Leadership Project and the Native Hawaiian Education Association. Michael is interested in psychological functions of culture, consequences of traumatic cultural disruption,indigenous psychologies, movements of cultural recovery, intercultural conflict, and processes of psychological decolonization.