Orlando B. Lightfoot, M.D. (Primary Supervision/Core Faculty) is a board certified psychiatrist and is Vice Chairman for Community Psychiatry at Boston University School of Medicine. Dr. Lightfoot has served in a number of administrative positions in the medical school and at Boston Medical Center. His interests are in multicultural psychiatric practice and ethnopsychopharmacolgy. Dr. Lightfoot is of African/Native-American descent.

David Trimble, Ph.D. (Core Faculty) is a clinical psychologist and family therapist whose work focuses on the interplay of culture, social class, and gender in family life. His interest in multiple system intervention includes the problems that develop between school, student, and amily around learning disabilities. He received his doctorate in clinical psychology from Harvard University's Department of Psychology and Social Relations. He is licensed and a member of the American Family Therapy Academy. He has been affiliated with CMTP for most of its 33 years. Dr. Trimble is of Scots/Irish-American and English-American descent and is Jewish.

Shani Dowd, LCSW (Core Faculty) is a licensed clinical social worker who is African-American. She is a popular and frequent presenter in continuing education programs nationwide dealing with the provision of culturally sensitive and appropriate mental health services. Ms. Dowd has been an instructor and supervisor in CMTP for more than nineteen years and currently teaches the seminar in Cross-Cultural Psychology.

Roxana Llerena-Quinn, Ph.D. (Primary Supervisor/Core Faculty) is a counseling psychologist who received her doctorate from Boston College. Her clinical, teaching and research interests are in the area of Latino mental health, particularly with respect to immigrant children, adolescents and families. Current research is in the area of depression prevention for Latino children. Her work towards the elimination of health disparities has focused on the culture of the provider and the health system. She teaches medical students and faculty on self-awareness and cultural identity at Children's Hospital of Boston and Harvard Medical School. Dr. Llerena-Quinn was born in Peru.

Arianne E. Miller, Ph.D. (Core Faculty) is a clinical psychologist who received her doctorate from Adelphi University and is an alumna of CMTP. She is a Staff Psychologist at Fenway Health. Dr. Miller is developing clinical specialties in adolescence, LGBT people of color populations, eating disorders/obesity, and projective assessment. In her research, Dr. Miller uses an intersectional lens to focus on how race, gender and sexuality impact identity development and mental health, as well as how these constructs are understood by the public. She is also interested in how power and unconscious/automatic processes impact cross-cultural interaction and communication. She is of African-American and European-American descent.