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HONORARY DOCTORATE RECIPIENT AND COMMENCEMENT SPEAKER
Dr. Wade Nobles
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Lilliana Sanchez
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CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, DOMINGUEZ HILLS
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Honorary Doctorate Recipient and Commencement Speaker
Wade Nobles
Wade Nobles is a professor emeritus of Africana Studies and Black psychology at San Francisco State University. He is also the co-founder and former president of the Association of Black Psychologists and the founder and executive director of the Institute for the Advanced Study of Black Family Life and Culture, Inc.
The grandson of people born into slavery, Nobles has studied classical African philosophy and traditional African wisdom traditions for more than 40 years, as the grounding for the development of an authentic Black psychology. His professional career has focused on the ongoing theoretical development and programmatic application of African/Black psychology, African-centered thought, and the cultural grounding necessary to address the liberation and restoration of the African mind and the worldwide development of the African people.
Nobles, who holds a PhD in Psychology from Stanford University, is the author of more than 100 articles, chapters, research reports, and books.
Since 1996, he has co-led the Enyimnyam Project, an international study-development project designed to give African Americans the opportunity to provide service based on their skills and expertise while living among the people of Ghana.
He has conducted 80 nationally funded, community-based research, training and development projects. Nobles’ scholarship has served as a model for advancing Black student success and excellence, as well as for advancing the study of the Black family. His Institute for the Advanced Study of Black Family Life and Culture, an independent think tank based in Oakland, has played a critical role in developing culturally appropriate models of healing for Black families and communities. The institute’s work has been instrumental in shifting traditional methods of assessing and treating diverse communities.
Nobles and his wife, Vera Lynn Winmilawe Nokwanda DeMoultrie, have five children and eleven grandchildren.
