Dr. Ferguson's Expertise & Experience

Anjali Ferguson is a culturally responsive licensed psychologist, children’s book author, podcast host, and widely sourced expert on racial and social trauma. Dr. Anjali Ferguson has been lauded nationally for her work. Her expertise and insight are featured on Today.com, The Huffington Post, Motherly, Healthline, TMZ, Parents, Psych Central, local and national news outlets, and many other sites and publications.

Dr. Ferguson’s expertise in trauma-informed care, early childhood mental health, and parenting puts her in a unique and meaningful position in today’s cultural landscape. Ferguson advocates for healing racial trauma and its mental health effects on today’s youth from as early as infancy and is trailblazing the way as a routine contributor to academic literature and research. She is committed to creating a paradigm shift for social justice equity through psychoeducation on the profound impacts of microaggressions and systemic racism and disadvantages for BIPOC communities.

Dr. Ferguson is also moving the needle in the Blindian (Black + Indian) community, as her work here is both passionate and personal. Anjali is a second-generation South Asian immigrant in a biracial and multi-faith partnership and the mother of a Blindian child. Her passion for racial justice advocacy is inspired by lived and learned experiences.

Further, Ferguson is also a founder of Parenting Culture – an online community and digital safe space for caretakers seeking culturally inclusive resources such as the Cultural Values Assessment, Gender Identity Development in Children, Empowering Children for Conversations About Race, How to Address Prenatal Health Disparities and more. Parenting Culture is also home to The Parenting Culture Podcast and blog.

Dr. Ferguson's Educational Journey & Career Path

Dr. Ferguson earned her Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from the Pennsylvania State University. She obtained a Master’s in Clinical Psychology from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and completed her Doctorate in Medical Clinical Psychology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

Ferguson teaches professional development courses and training seminars such as “Working Towards Systemic Change: Understanding Individual and Collective Impacts to Address Social Determinants of Health” at The Virginia Commonwealth University and to multiple professionals across the state in partnership with state organizations. Her course was recently published in an academic journal as a new model of training cultural humility in professionals.

In her children’s book, An Ordinary Day, Dr. Ferguson juxtaposes a day in the life of a black child alongside a day in the life of his white classmate, subtly demonstrating microaggressions and systemic disadvantages. An invaluable resource for raising anti-racist children, An Ordinary Day lays the groundwork for parents to have conversations about race and systemic injustice in a way everyone can understand.