Editor of The Community Psychologist

Term Dates

January 2021 – December 2023; August 2022 – August 2025

Professional Bio

Dominique Thomas is a community psychologist, editor, organizer and is currently an adjunct faculty in the Department of Psychology at Morehouse College. His research and teaching interests are in Black sociopolitical development, Pan Africanism, Afrofuturism, decoloniality, and anti-imperialism. His work involves facilitating the development of critical consciousness and alternative settings through political education. Dominique is currently the editor of The Community Psychologist and co-editor of the SCRA Book Series. He is co-editing the upcoming AJCP special issue Imperial Algorithms: Contemporary Manifestations of Racism and Colonialism.

CP and Me

I am a scholar-practitioner interested in the political philosophy of social justice and empowerment. My praxis is a liberation psychology informed by Afrofuturism as a form of anti-imperialism; I study how educational institutions reproduce racial capitalism. I am Editor of The Community Psychologist and previously served as Associate Editor (2018-2020). I attained my B.A. in Psychology from Morehouse College and my M.A./Ph.D. in Community Psychology from Georgia State University. I was a Scholarship to Practice Fellow (2018-2020) at the University of Michigan. I served as chair of the Council for Cultural, Ethnic, and Racial Affairs (2019-2021) and am currently guest-editing a forthcoming special issue in the AJCP, Imperial Algorithms: Contemporary Manifestations of Racism and Colonialism.