TheNational Council on Family Relations (NCFR)has electedPamela (Pam) B. Payne, Ph.D., CFLE, as the president-elect of the NCFR Board of Directors.
“I am honored to have been elected by my peers to represent our organization in the coming years,” Payne said. “I am grateful for the opportunity to represent the National Council on Family Relations and work toward highlighting the value of our interdisciplinary fields in research, education and policy, which have significant implications for families and the communities in which they reside.”
Payne is an associate professor in theCollege of Education & Human Developmentand withExtension,as part of theCollege of w88 online live casino, Biotechnology & Natural Re. She is the lead on a million grant for theHope for Family Resilienceprogram, which provides in-depth education on domestic violence advocacy and training for professionals working with domestic violence.
She is also a coach to the Children, Youth, and Families At-Risk (CYFAR) Professional Development and Technical Assistance (PDTA) Center for the U.S. Department of Agriculture-National Institute of Food and Agriculture (USDA-NIFA).
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. Herprimary 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 own experiences in multiple facets of academia and communities where NCFR content and family life education intersect.
Being able to translate research and practice into education, outreach and policy, extending beyond academia, is both the goal of her career and historically a cornerstone of NCFR. Her experiences teaching in traditional classrooms, community settings and as a CYFAR grant coach, coupled with research and policy expertise, make her uniquely suited to represent the multiple stakeholders within NCFR.
