A social psychologist by training, Yves Labissiere is an associate professor at Portland State University where he teaches classes and conducts research on the psychology of oppression and empowerment, diversity and learning, inter and intra-group relations and conflict. Yves recently finished a Pew Funded project examining ethnic differences in civic engagement among African Americans, Cuban, Jamaicans, Haitians, and European Americans and the role that faith and religion played. Yves received a BA from Yale, and a doctorate in Psychology from the University of California at Santa Cruz. When he is not working, he enjoys, gardening, cooking, weightlifting and just good conversations with friends.