Session Description
This invited dialogue will explore cultural complexity thorough the lens of multiple identities including race, ethnicity, sexual and gender identity, age, ability, nationality, religion, socioeconomic status and social role identities.  The panel will particularly focus on the challenges faced by individuals (including clients and clinicians) negotiating multiple identities, particularly those invisible aspects of identity that are so often ignored. 

Participants involved in the program will:

1. Identify often invisible aspects of multiple identities, 
2. Consider how invisible identities interact with more visible identities. 
3. Engage in meaningful dialogue with program presenters.

Dr. Arlene Noriega is a licensed clinical psychologist with a private practice in a suburb of Atlanta.  She received her Masters Degree in Community Psychology at Florida International University and she received her doctorate from the University of Miami.  She completed her pre-doctoral internship and post-doctoral training at Harvard Medical School Children’s Hospital.  Dr. Noriega was an associate professor at the Georgia School of Professional Psychology and is currently in private practice.  Dr. Noriega has been providing clinical services to a broad range of individuals and families for 16 years.  Her specialties are in issues of trauma, effects of oppression, as well as mood disorders and developmental disabilities.   Dr. Noriega is a faculty member of the Cultural Diversity Institute of Positive Impact in Atlanta, Georgia.  She was a founding board member of FamilyPride of the South.  Dr. Noriega has been actively involved in Georgia Psychological Association Division H (Division of Sexual Orientation Issues) from 1998 to present.  She has acted as a member-at-large, and chair of that division.  In addition, Dr. Noriega has been actively involved in Division 44 of the American Psychological Association since 2000.  She was one of the coordinators of the 2007 National Multicultural Conference and Summit held in Seattle, WA.  In August 2007 Dr. Noriega received APA Division 44’s Distinguished Contributions to Ethnic Minority Issues Award.