Bonnie A. Gray, Ph.D

Dr. Bonnie A. Gray is a licensed psychologist who has almost 18 years of post-doctorate experience in the field of psychology. For many years she has specialized in helping individuals and groups work with diverse populations. She works with educational institutions, organizations, businesses, corporations, and governmental agencies to proactively address diversity and inclusion issues and to ameliorate diversity concerns or problems that already exist. For the last 5 years, she has been the Director of the Maricopa County Community College District’s Diversity Infusion Program where she created and oversees various Program services including a Diversity Helpline, Faculty Mentor Program, Student Internship Program, Website, and special library collection of diversity materials (books, videos, etc.). These programs serve as models of diversity education throughout the nation. Additionally, Dr. Gray has created and is Executive Director of the POWER Institute. She has been invited to speak numerous times as an expert on diversity and multicultural issues.

For the last 17 years, Dr. Gray has taught within the Maricopa Community College District, and is currently a tenured professor of Psychology at Scottsdale Community College where she also co-sponsors a scholarship for Psychology students. Among the many accomplishments Dr. Gray has achieved she created and developed PIRC, the Psychology Instructional Resource Center at Mesa Community College. Under her direction, the PIRC received over 7000 student visits per year, and showed significant increases in course retention rates and in student performances (e.g., an average increase of one whole letter grade) for those students who used the Center. Dr. Gray received two nominations for “Innovator of the Year” for her creation and work on the PIRC, which is still in existence today. She has been chosen several times for inclusion in “Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers,” an honor that is given to only 2.5% of the Nation’s college professors.

Dr. Gray provides consulting services to a variety of professionals both nationally and internationally. These services include interactive and dynamic seminars, conferences, and workshops, as well as program design, implementation, intervention, and evaluation. A few of the topics she addresses are applying psychological knowledge to organizational outcomes to create desired behavior change and promoting health and well-being, productivity and profit, in business and professional organizations. She has also provided information on leadership, communication, client relations, conflict management and resolution, health and stress in the workplace, harassment and gender issues, motivation, and psychological needs of the individual.

Dr. Gray has conducted numerous research studies, has written paper presentations for professional meetings, and has authored publications for scientific refereed journals. She has received several grants, most notably The intersection of diversion and ADR: An evaluation of a prosecutor's criminal diversion program that utilizes mediation, State Justice Institute (Goldschmidt & Gray, 1992), and Diversion to mediation: A test of the wider, stronger, different nets hypothesis, National Science Foundation (Goldschmidt & Gray, 1992). She has served as a reviewer of college textbooks for major publishing companies. She was an oral examiner for the State Of Arizona Board of Psychologist Examiners and was a statistical and technical reviewer for the American Judicature Society.

Dr. Gray has worked with the United Nations High Commission For Refugees (UNHCR) and has served on several Boards including Community Celebrating Diversity (a non-profit organization that sponsors educational and community events to celebrate and create a greater awareness of our community’s diversity) and the Unlearning Racism Committee of the City of Scottsdale Commission on Human Relations, in conjunction with the League of Cities Race Equality Week. She served on the Samaritan Health Services Leadership Institute and Pharmaceutical Council, as well as chairing their Outcomes Assessment Committee.

Dr. Gray is a member of the American Psychological Association, the American Psychological Society (charter member), the Arizona Psychological Association, Health Psychology, the American Society for the Advancement of Pharmacotherapy, International Psychology, Society for the Psychological Study of Ethnic Minority Issues, Society For Behavioral Medicine, and the Council of Teachers of Undergraduate Psychology (CTUP – lifetime member). Dr. Gray has been the recipient of many awards and honors for her work.