Derald Wing Sue

Best-selling author of critically acclaimed book, Microaggressions in Everyday Life

Derald Wing Sue is professor of psychology and education in the Department of Counseling and Clinical Psychology at Teachers College and the School of Social Work, Columbia University. He has served as a training faculty member with the Institute for Management Studies and the Columbia University Executive Training Programs. He was the cofounder and first president of the Asian American Psychological Association, past presidents of the Society for the Psychological Study of Culture, Ethnicity and Race, and the Society of Counseling Psychology.

Dr. Sue is a member of the American Counseling Association, Fellows of the American Psychological Association, and numerous other organizations. Dr. Sue has served as editor of the Journal for Counseling and Development, associate editor of the American Psychologist, editorial board member to Asian Journal of Counselling, and serves on the council of elders for Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology. He is author of over 160 scholarly articles, 20 books, and numerous media productions.

Two of his books, Microaggressions in Everyday Life and Race Talk and the Conspiracy of Silence are critically acclaimed. As evidence of Dr. Sue’s stature in the field, two studies (1989 and 2012) of multicultural publications and scholars concluded that “Impressively, Derald Wing Sue is without doubt the most influential multicultural scholar in the United States.”