Usha Tummala-Narra

Usha Tummala-Narra, Ph.D. is the Director of Community-Based Education at the Danielsen Institute and Research Professor at Boston University. Her research and scholarship focus on immigration, trauma, race, and cultural competence and psychoanalytic psychotherapy. Her publications include over 90 peer-reviewed articles and chapters in books. She is also in Independent Practice, and works primarily with survivors of trauma from diverse sociocultural backgrounds. Dr. Tummala-Narra is an Associate Editor of the Asian American Journal of Psychology and Associate Editor of Psychoanalytic Dialogues. She is the author of Psychoanalytic Theory and Cultural Competence in Psychotherapy, published by American Psychological Association Books in 2016. Her edited book, Trauma and Racial Minority Immigrants: Turmoil, Uncertainty, and Resistance (APA Books) was published in January 2021.