Dr. Mel Wilcox is an incoming (Fall 2024) Associate Professor in the Counseling Psychology Ph.D. program at the University at Albany, where she also earned her Ph.D. in 2015. Her research focuses on culturally and structurally responsive psychotherapy and training (including clinical supervision); racial and socioeconomic inequity in higher education; and whiteness, antiracism, and social justice more broadly. She has coauthored over 35 peer-reviewed articles in these areas.

She is currently President-Elect of APA Division 17, the Society of Counseling Psychology. She has previously served on the APA Board of Educational Affairs, having chaired that board in 2020, and now serves on the APA Committee on Socioeconomic Status. She also co-founded the Psychology of Social Class Organization, which is petitioning for a new APA Division focused on economic justice. She is an Associate Editor of Training and Education in Professional Psychology and serves on several other editorial boards, including those of The Counseling Psychologist and Journal of Counseling Psychology.

She is also a licensed psychologist and board certified in counseling psychology, and works part-time in private practice at the Atlanta-based Aguirre Center for Inclusive Psychotherapy providing individual psychotherapy, relationship therapy, psychological assessment, and clinical supervision via telehealth.