Kate Richmond

In addition to her consulting work with KJCG, Kate Richmond, PhD., is a Professor of Psychology and Director of Women & Gender Studies at Muhlenberg College. She is widely published in the areas of multicultural psychology, gender ideology, masculinity, transgender/gender non-binary resiliency, cultural-sensitive psychotherapy, and trauma. Dr. Richmond has 32 peer-reviewed publications and is co-author of an undergraduate textbook with W.W. Norton Publishing Company, entitled Psychology of Women & Gender. She currently serves on the editorial boards of two reputable journals, Psychology of Women Quarterly and Women & Therapy.

Dr. Richmond has been recognized on several occasions for excellence in teaching, including being the recipient of the Paul C. Empie Memorial Award for Excellence in Teaching. She has been an invited speaker for regional and national teaching conferences, including the National Institute for Teaching in Psychology and the National Conference on Race and Ethnicity. She is a recipient of competitive grants used to assess the effectiveness of community-based teaching within the Lehigh County Corrections facility and is a member of the SCI-Graterford Prison Think Tank. She leads a group of Muhlenberg College faculty, staff, students, who work alongside individuals who are currently or formerly incarcerated, to increase access to higher education, reduce mass incarceration, and build healthy communities. 

Dr. Richmond has served in multiple leadership positions in the governance of national organizations, most notably in service to American Psychological Association Division 35: Society for Psychological Study of Women. In 2012, she co-founded the Institute for Academic Feminist Psychologists, an organization that brings together individuals who currently employ or would like to employ a social justice lens to their research, teaching, and service. The Institute consists of a biannual workshop, ongoing support for psychologists via social media as well as workshops at national conferences. The Institute provides junior scholars with the skills necessary to engage in socially-just research and teaching, and to prepare them for tenure and promotion.

For 15 years, Dr. Richmond has maintained a thriving private practice, specializing in the treatment of trauma. She has published several peer-reviewed articles and book chapters on the practice of multicultural therapy. On behalf of the Association for Women in Psychology, she organized the Feminist Voices series, a set of Continuing Education (CE) workshops geared to local clinicians. Because of her applied work, Dr. Richmond is featured in local and national news outlets (e.g., NPR, Glamour Magazine, Morning Call, Philadelphia Inquirer), and is a regularly sought after keynote speaker.