Brad Olson is a community psychologist focused on a wide variety of human and civil rights issues, advocacy and activism, participatory action research, and mixed quantitative and qualitative methodologies, ethics, and philosophy of science. He is President of Psychologists for Social Responsibility www.psysr.org, co-founder of The Coalition for an Ethical Psychology www.ethicalpsychology.org/ and will be President-Elect of the Society for the Study of Peace, Conflict, and Violence http://www.peacepsych.org/ and is a past chair of Divisions for Social Justice (DSJ) a collaboration of 12 APA divisions.

 The psychology of human and civil rights (e.g., torture), urban policy, and mixed quantitative and qualitative methodologies, participatory action research, and philosophy of science