Where the chapter gathers.
The chapter lives in its gatherings: monthly business and connection, seasonal celebrations, and the national convention each summer. Here is how to be in the room.
Chapter meetings
General meetings run through the year in the evening, sometimes on Zoom and sometimes in person around the metro. Expect board updates, committee check-ins, professional connection, and space for member announcements. Meeting dates go out on the listserv first; the 2026 calendar is announced there as each date is set.
Meetings are open to prospective members. Come once, see how it feels.
Get the next meeting link ↗Join the chapter listserv
Meeting dates, Zoom links, event invitations, and opportunities land in your inbox first. Email us with the subject line "Add me to the listserv" and you are in.
Sign up by email →Mark your calendar by the seasons.
Sankofa Celebration
Our December gathering, named for the Adinkra symbol that teaches us to reach back and carry our history forward. Food, music, fellowship, and the installation of incoming officers before they take office January 1.
Chapter cookout
A family-style summer gathering for members, students, and friends of the chapter. Members bring family, and students meet mentors over a plate.
Workshops & summits
Professional development sessions and community events, continuing a chapter tradition that has included summits on trauma and mental health in Black communities.
General meeting
Board elections open for the 2026–2028 term; nominations and voting run through early December.
Sankofa Celebration
Year-end gathering and transition ceremony for the incoming Executive Board.
New board takes office
The 2026–2028 Executive Board begins its two-year term.
maabpsi.org launches
The chapter's fiftieth year brings its first full website: the one you are reading.
Summer cookout & fall programming
Dates announced on the listserv first. Email us to get on it.
Go back and get it.
Sankofa, from the Akan of Ghana, is the bird that walks forward while reaching back for the egg on its back. It is how this chapter closes every year: honoring what came before, feeding what comes next.
The ABPsi International Convention
Every summer, the national Association of Black Psychologists convenes members from across the world for scholarship, ceremony, healing spaces, and community, including a free public Community Day.
MAABPsi members attend at reduced registration rates.
Convention details at abpsi.org ↗Enstoolment. Libations. Mbongi. The convention carries traditions that remind us psychology did not begin in Europe.