The Ancestors are Pleased: The Scholarly and Mentoring Contributions of Suzette Speight

For some, social justice is a value. For others, it is an action verb and how they enact their values daily. For Dr. Suzette Speight, social justice was core to who she was, which was evident through her many scholarly contributions to counseling psychology, Black psychology, and beyond, through her mentoring and leadership, and through her impact on countless students, peers, and community members. If you knew Suzette, you know she did not hold back or hesitate to challenge injustice. And she definitely didn’t accept it as an inevitability. Instead, she worked to combat and dismantle injustice. She not only embodied counseling psychology and Black Psychology values, but she also helped to shape them. Writing about her legacy is not easy because she was gone too soon. Yet, in other ways, her legacy writes itself because of all she gave this profession and this world.