Keynote Panel
Honoring Brent Dean Robbins
Aug 18, 1970 — Apr 28, 2026
Saturday, March 13th | 5:00–6:30 PM | Duquesne
Panel Speakers
Dean Robbins
Ashley Bobak, PsyD
Ashley Bobak is a licensed psychologist and earned her doctoral degree in Clinical-Community Psychology from Point Park University. She is interested in the intersections of philosophy, history, and psychology and is using this intersection as a lens to examine substance addiction. She hopes to develop and promote alternative approaches to conceptualizing and treating psychopathology that maintain and revere human dignity.
Roxanne Christensen, PsyD
Dr. Roxanne Christensen is a licensed doctoral psychologist and early career supervisor who provides existential-humanistic, depth-oriented mental wellness care from a feminist-multicultural lens integrating Western contextualization with Eastern philosophy. She specializes in working with people of marginalized and intersectional experiences, inclusive of gender equity, experiences of people of color, and survivors of trauma.
Justin Karter, PhD
Justin M. Karter, PhD, is Program Director of the PsyD in Clinical Psychology at Boston College and Assistant Professor of the Practice in the Department of Formative Education. He is also a Research Fellow and Lab Lead at the Center for Psychological Humanities and Ethics. He earned his PhD in Counseling Psychology from the University of Massachusetts Boston and completed an APA-accredited predoctoral internship at the University at Albany. He previously served as President of the Society for Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology (APA Division 24) and received the 2024 Sigmund Koch Award for Early Career Contribution to Psychology. His scholarship examines historical and cultural formations of mind, activist and lived-experience communities, and how mental health discourse shapes institutions and identities. He also works with Mad in America, where he leads research news coverage and editorial strategy. Brent Dean Robbins was his mentor, and Brent's work continues to shape his teaching and scholarship.
Robert McInerney, PhD
Dr. Robert McInerney is Professor Emeritus at Point Park University. His research and 25 years of teaching have focused on the ontologies of becoming human, relating primarily to ethical community engagement. Dr. McInerney has utilized hermeneutic-phenomenological, queer, feminist, and post-structural theories, as well as posthumanism methodologies. His courses included Critical Social Psychology, Community Psychology, Zombies and Psychological Life, and
Ecopsychology, Posthumanism, Cyborg, and the Anthropocene. Dr. McInerney’s publications address a hermeneutics of love within communities as well as the resolute practice of communitas. He is the founder of the Mobile Thriving Respite, which works with those unhoused and the street community. His most recent and relevant publication is An Existential–Phenomenological Account of Community
Psychology in the APA Handbook of Humanistic and Existential Psychology (2026).
Nathaniel Granger, Jr., PsyD
Nathaniel Granger, Jr., PsyD, a Chicago native, is a Past-President of Division 32 of the American Psychological Association (Society for Humanistic Psychology) and an adjunct professor at Saybrook University. As a Psychology Instructor at Pikes Peak Community Collegefor almost 15 years, he received the 2007 Honor Role Award for his transformational style of teaching and leadership, which facilitated in an increase in the school’s retention rate among marginalized groups. He serves as an editor of University Professor’s Press and is the Treasurer of Rocky Mountain Counseling and Psychological Association (RMHCPA). Additionally, he is the Chief of Staff of the Pikes Peak Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC); the civil rights organization originally led by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. as its first President.
Sarah Schultz, PhD
Sarah L. Schulz, Ph.D., is a professor of psychology, undergraduate coordinator of the behavioral sciences program and chair of the Department of Psychology at Point Park University. She is also chair of the university Institutional Review Board (IRB) and faculty advisor of the Gender and Sexuality Spectrum Alliance, which is in support and celebration of the LGBTQ community at Point Park.
Schulz earned her Doctorate in Social Welfare with a specialization in gender and sexuality from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2012. Since joining the Point Park faculty in 2013, her research interests have focused on the health and mental health needs of the LGBTQ community, as well as the homeless community of Pittsburgh. She was also a Principal Investigator on the 2016 Point Park University Campus Climate Survey, which aimed to assess students’ experiences, behaviors, and attitudes regarding sexual assault and harassment on urban college campuses. Her research interests are rooted in over 10 years of clinical experience as a Licensed Social Worker (LSW) in a variety of mental health settings.
Louis Hoffman, PhD
Louis Hoffman, PhD, is a well-known independent researcher. He is the 2020/2021 recipient of the Rollo May Award from the Society for Humanistic Psychology and has been recognized as a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA) and nine of its divisions, including the Society for General Psychology (APA Division 1), the Society for the Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts (APA Division 10), the Society of Clinical Psychology (APA Division 12), the Society for Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology (APA Division 24), the Society for Humanistic Psychology (APA Division 32), the Society for the Psychology of Religion and Spirituality (APA Division 36), the Society for the Psychological Study of Culture, Ethnicity, and Race (APA Division 45), the Society for the Study Peace, Conflict, and Violence (APA Division 48), and APA Division 52 (International Psychology). He is the Executive Director of the Rocky Mountain Humanistic Counseling and Psychological Association and maintains a private practice in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Additionally, Dr. Hoffman is the Editor of The Humanistic Psychologist.