Kelly Wilson (President)

Kelly Wilson, Ph.D., is an assistant professor (associate in the fall) of psychology at the University at Mississippi. He received his B.A. from Gonzaga University in 1989, and his Ph.D. from the University of Nevada, Reno in 1998. After running a National Institutes on Drug Abuse clinical trial in Reno, he joined the faculty at the University of Mississippi in 2000 where he founded the Mississippi Center for Contextual Psychology. Kelly has devoted himself to the development and dissemination of ACT and RFT for the past 17 years, publishing 26 articles, 18 chapters, and 4 books. He has presented workshops to more than 3000 individuals in 10 countries, and has participated as co-investigator on a wide range of projects in the U.S., Sweden, Spain, and the United Kingdom. He is currently co-investigator on grants at the University of Houston and in the Dorset Healthcare Trust in the England.

Statement
The group that gave birth to ACBS started small. We shared a set of content interests, an analytic strategy, and importantly, a set of values. As recognition of the work has expanded, so has the size of our community. We have the opportunity to set a pattern for growth that institutionalizes the values that drew us together. If given the opportunity to serve I will work:

• to produce structures and processes within ACBS that insure its development as an inclusive, diverse, and nonhierarchical organization,

• to foster deep inclusion of students within the organization,
• to retain a strong connection among individuals doing basic and applied research and those who are applying the work in human service settings,
• to foster open-source technologies, emphasizing free and low cost access to materials that facilitate the development and dissemination of basic and applied work.

We have an opportunity to imagine and build an ideal workgroup within ACBS. I would be honored to play a role in that development.