Carmen Knudson-Martin is Professor and Director of the Ph.D. program in Marital and Family Therapy at Loma Linda University. She previously directed MFT masters programs at Montana State University and Valdosta State University in Georgia. She publishes widely on gender and cultural issues in couples and family therapy and is an associate editor of the Journal of Marital and Family Therapy and on the Board of the Family Process Institute. She earned a Ph.D. at the University of Southern California and is a licensed MFT.