Constantine, Madonna G. (1963-)

Career Path

Constantine was born and raised in Lafayette, Louisiana, the third of five children in her family. [Page 1069]With a lifelong natural curiosity about people, she realized at an early age that she wanted to become a psychologist. Constantine completed her undergraduate studies at Xavier University in New Orleans, Louisiana, where she graduated cum laude in 1984 with a major in psychology and a minor in English. She received an M.A. in business, industry, and social agencies counseling from Xavier in 1986 and a Ph.D. in counseling psychology from Memphis University in 1991, where she matriculated as the first student of color in the program's history.

Upon completing her predoctoral internship at the University of Notre Dame's Counseling Center, Constantine began her professional career as a practitioner, accepting a staff position at the University of Texas's Counseling and Mental Health Center in Austin. After 5 years there, Constantine sought a new career direction that would allow her to develop her research interests more fully, and in 1995 she joined the counseling psychology faculty at Temple University in Philadelphia. Three years later, in 1998, she was recruited by Teachers College, Columbia University, to their Counseling Psychology Program, where she works as a full professor as of this writing.

National Leadership and Service

Throughout her career, Constantine has served her field as both participant and leader in a number of professional organizations and national service activities. She is a member of Divisions 17 (Society of Counseling Psychology), 35 (Psychology of Women), and 45 (Society for the Psychological Study of Ethnic Minority Issues) of the American Psychological Association (APA), and is a lifetime member of the Association of Black Psychologists. She is also a member of the American Counseling Association (ACA), the Association of Multicultural Counseling and Development, the National Career Development Association, and the Association for Counselor Education and Supervision. In particular, she has been a leader within Division 17 since the early 1990s, when she became the chair of the division's Ethnic and Racial Diversity Committee (which subsequently became the division's Section on Ethnic and Racial Diversity); she served as past chair from 1997 to 1999. On behalf of Division 17, Constantine also has served as Program Committee chair (1999–2000), Awards Committee cochair (2001–2002) and chair (2002–2003), Fellowship Committee chair (2005-present), and liaison to the

APA's Ethnic Minority Affairs Committee (1996–2003). She was the Program Committee cochair for the 2001 National Counseling Psychology Conference in Houston, Texas, and also has served as member-at-large for Division 45. In addition, Constantine has served as a grants review panel member for both the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (2000) and the National Institute of Mental Health (2001), and she has served as a member of the Committee for the Examination for the Professional Practice of Psychology Licensing Exam (since 2002) and a member of numerous committees and task groups within APA.

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