Ms. Ninf A Martinez:

I believe that you would serve as an excellent reviewer of the manuscript, "What Do Allies Do?: Providing Culturally Responsive Counseling to Communities of Color," which has been submitted to Revista Interamericana de Psicologia/Interamerican Journal of Psychology. The submission's abstract is inserted below, and I hope that you will consider undertaking this important task for us.

Please log into the journal web site by 2017-04-21 to indicate whether you will undertake the review or not, as well as to access the submission and to record your review and recommendation. The web site is https://journal.sipsych.org/index.php/IJP

The review itself is due 2017-05-12.

If you do not have your username and password for the journal's web site, you can use this link to reset your password (which will then be emailed to you along with your username). https://journal.sipsych.org/index.php/IJP/login/resetPassword/ninfa_terapia?confirm=02548cbc2c2405f8f5ab3824bc3aeabea87c4116717519d5f20ac719aba137b1%3A1492191094

Submission URL: https://journal.sipsych.org/index.php/IJP/reviewer/submission/173

Thank you for considering this request.

Dr. Edil Torres Rivera
South University
etorresrivera@gmail.com



"What Do Allies Do?: Providing Culturally Responsive Counseling to Communities of Color"

Abstract
Unfortunately, in the United States the field of counseling has not kept pace with the changing ethnic demographics of larger society. As such, communities of color in the U.S. require the support of counselor allies. Allies are people from dominant socio-political groups who seek to end oppression. This study used grounded theory to examine the experience of six counselors who were identified as allies to communities of color. Based on the results of this study we argue that allies possess awareness of self, personal knowledge of and connection to communities of color, the skills of rapport building and engaging in critical conversations, and participate in action on behalf of their students. Implications of these findings for counselor who seek to be allies to communities of color are provided.
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Edil Torres Rivera, Ph.D., Editor
Interamerican Journal of Psychology
http://journal.sipsych.org/index.php/IJP