LEAD Fellow Spotlight

LEAD Fellow Spotlight

By Michelle E. Roley-Roberts, PhD
LEAD Fellow Alumna, Associate Editor of the InBalance Newsletter

As a proud alumna of the inaugural SCCAP Leadership Education to Advance Diversity (LEAD) Fellowship, rolled out in 2019 and held biannually, I am pleased to launch a Fellow Spotlight in our SCCAP Newsletter. In each issue, we hope to feature LEAD Fellow alumni to showcase the fabulous work that Fellows are doing and to highlight their career journeys. To participate in the LEAD Fellowship, prospective participants must be SCCAP members (SCCAP membership is free for students!), either graduate students or Early Career Psychologists with no more than 10 years post-doctorate, and identify as having an identity that is historically underrepresented in child and adolescent psychology (e.g., ethnic and racial, sexual and gender diversity, individuals with a disability). To learn more please visit the website.

SCCAP LEAD Fellow Spotlight: Ashley Ramclam, PhD

Ashley Ramclam, PhD was a LEAD Fellow in 2021. Since her time as a LEAD Fellow she completed her degree in School Psychology from the University of Houston. Her internship and fellowship were completed at Nemours Children’s Hospital where her training focused on integrated behavioral health and Autism. She is now a Licensed Psychologist and Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine. She enjoys her role in academic medicine where she can devote time to both her clinical and research interests, which primarily focus on improving access, service delivery, and support for Black and Hispanic/Latine autistic youth. She feels especially lucky to have joined a growing team of diverse behavioral health clinicians integrating into over 50 primary care practices within the Texas Children’s network. Dr. Ramclam serves in a leadership position supporting a group of talented masters-level clinicians in central Houston and will soon begin working with psychology trainees. Although she provides services for a variety of presenting problems, she loves the extension of the work she started during her fellowship focused on fine-tuning training and service delivery processes necessary to provide high quality, culturally humble autism assessments in primary care. During her time as a LEAD Fellow she served on the American Psychological Association of Graduate Students (APAGS) Convention Committee and then as the Convention Chair for Division 16 Student Board. Currently, Dr. Ramclam serves on the APA Board of Educational Affairs/Board of Professional Affairs Task Force on Doctoral Competencies in Health Service Psychology.