Toward the Development of Antiracist and Multicultural Graduate Training Programs in Behavior Analysis

Najdowski et al. (2021) wrote a how-to guide for making behavior-analysis grad programs antiracist.

They list steps any program can take: check syllabi for missing voices, add classes on cultural humility, and train teachers to spot bias.

The paper is a roadmap, not a study with numbers.

The authors show that most ABA courses now skip race, power, and culture.

They give a checklist to fix this gap starting this semester.

Levy et al. (2022) pick up the same theme one year later but widen the lens. They ask the whole field—not just schools—to audit itself.

Jimenez‐Gomez (2024) moves the idea into research labs. She tells mentors to track how they recruit diverse students and write inclusive consent forms.

Machalicek et al. (2022) shrink the idea to one person. They give BCBAs a self-management sheet to log daily antiracist acts, like correcting a biased goal.

Together these papers form a staircase: fix the program, then the workplace, then yourself.

You can start today even if your agency has no formal training. Print the Najdowski checklist and audit your supervisees’ goals for cultural blind spots. Swap one reading for an author of color next week. These small moves stack into systemic change without waiting for a grant or a new course.