Pamela Payne
The National Council on Family Relations has elected Pamela Payne as the president-elect of the NCFR board of directors.
Payne is an associate professor of Human Development and Family Science and Interdisciplinary Social Psychology at the University of Nevada, Reno.
She is the lead on a $1 million grant for the Hope for Family Resilience program. She is also a coach to the Children, Youth, and Families At-Risk Professional Development and Technical Assistance Center for the U.S. Department of Agriculture-National Institute of Food and Agriculture.
She is involved with research in various aspects of romantic relationships, parenting, youth and areas of community engagement.
Payne has published widely, including in the Journal of Extension, Journal of Human Sciences & Extension, presently on the editorial board for Marriage and Family Review and is an invited reviewer for McGraw-Hill textbooks.
Payne has been a Certified Family Life Educator for more than 10 years and an NCFR member for over 15 years.
Her primary leadership goals are to be inclusive of diverse family structures and to promote advocacy for the representation of intersectional identities, which is informed by her experiences in multiple facets of academia and communities where NCFR content and family life education intersect.