APA’s 2023 International Humanitarian Award Winner: Garth Neufeld
The American Psychological Association’s Committee for Global Psychology announced the 2023 winner of the International Humanitarian Award, Garth Neufeld, MA.
Mr. Neufeld is a professor of psychology at Cascadia College. He previously received the “2018 Citizen Psychologist presidential citation from APA for co-founding (along with his wife, Danielle) Shared Space For All, an organization that educates and mentors the most at-risk children and youth in Thailand toward the prevention of sex work and trafficking, and that now offers its students full college scholarships.”
Here is a video of Mr. Neufeld accepting his award. He describes his work in Thailand.
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