Shemiyah Holland

Shemiyah Holland – scholland2@radford.edu 

Dr. Shemiyah Holland is a new faculty member in the School Psychology Program at Radford University (RU). Dr. Holland successfully defended her dissertation examining how Black adolescents across California perceive their school climate, using latent class analysis and covariate analyses for gender and parental education level. Dr. Holland completed her internship at the Santa Barbara Psychology Internship Consortium (SB-PIC) where she worked with a local elementary school to implement behavioral interventions. Dr. Holland earned her school psychology doctoral degree, June 2026, from the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she worked in Dr. Shane Jimerson’s lab. She also obtained her M.A. in School Psychology from Bowie State University in Maryland. Dr. Holland is a Nationally Certified School Psychologist (NCSP) with extensive experience working with diverse groups of K-12 students. Her research focuses on the role of positive peer and teacher relationships as a preventive strategy to enhance student engagement and promote social-emotional well-being among African American and Latinx students.

At RU, Dr. Holland will be mentoring and training culturally responsive school psychologists to help address the national shortage in the field. Dr. Holland will be teaching the following courses:  School Psychology Services, School Psychology Practicum, Clinical Practicum, and Early Childhood Assessment/Intervention. Her long-term goal is to become a coordinator of a School Psychology Program. 

Below are a few articles that Dr. Holland has supported efforts of publications during her time at University of California, Santa Barbara. 

Jimerson, S. R., Reinke, A., Kaur, L., Holland, S., Quintanilla, J., Mittelstet, A., Alvarez, L. Ali, A., Turner, I., Adan, B., Almeida, L., Cabigting, E., Cui, Z., Hung, J., Nusser, H., Villalobos, G., Scott, D., Wade, K., Miles, C., & Hunt, S., & Perez, M. G. (2025). Understanding school psychology internationally: The Expansion of International Knowledge and Practices During the 21st Century 2010-Present (Part 3 of 3). International School Psychology Association World-Go-Round, 53 (4), 10-27. https://ispaweb.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/WGR-ISPA-V53-N4-2.pdf

Scott, D., Dunn, S. M., Holland, S., & Bills, A. E. (2025). Nzima Stages of Human Development: 

An inclusive model for understanding lifespan development. APSAC Advisor, 38 (3), 69-83. https://apsac.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/10775.pdf

Jimerson, S., Boyle, C., Begeny, J., King, R., Liem, G. A. D., Wang, C., Gawrilow, C., Hall, J., Huang, F., Datu, J. A. D., Lyons, M. D., Allen, K-A., Humphrey, N., Worrell, F. C., Veiga, F., Watanabe, Y., Espelage, D. L., Souza Lobo Guzzo, R., Kikas, E., Grief Green, J., Hatzichristou, C., Spilt, J., Bradshaw, C., Salmivalli, C., Kaur, L, & Holland, S. (2025). Advancing the science and practice of school psychology internationally: transnational leadership cultivating diversity, equity, innovation, inclusion, and global impact. Psychology in the Schools. https://doi.org/10.1002/pits.70131

Jimerson, S. R., Reinke, A., Kaur, L., Holland, S., Quintanilla, J., Mittelstet, A., Alvarez, L. Ali, A., Turner, I., Adan, B., Almeida, L., Cabigting, E., Cui, Z., Hung, J., Nusser, H., Villalobos, G., Scott, D., Wade, K., Miles, C., & Hunt, S. (2025). Understanding school psychology internationally: The beginning of the 21st century 2000-2009 (Part 2 of 3). International School Psychology Association World-Go-Round, 53 (3), 34-46. https://ispaweb.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/WGR-ISPA-V53-N3.pdf

Jimerson, S. R., Reinke, A., Kaur, L., Holland, S., Quintanilla, J., Mittelstet, A., & Alvarez, L. (2025).  Understanding school psychology internationally: An introduction to pioneering resources and research from the 1900’s. International School Psychology World-Go-Round, 53 (2), 14-22. https://ispaweb.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/WGR-ISPA-V53-N2.pdf

Jimerson, S. R., Allen, J., Arora, P., Blake, J., Canivez, G., Chambers, C., Chan, M., Espelage, D., Gonzalez, J., Gormley, M., Graves, S., Holland, S., Huang, F., January, S., Kaur, L., Kim, E., LaSalle, T., Mittelstet, A., Phelps, C., Reinke, A., Renshaw, T., Song, S., Sullivan, A., Wang, C., Worrell, F., & Yang, C. (2024). Advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion in school psychology science and scholarship: Changing training and practice in the field of school psychology. Canadian Journal of School Psychology, 39(4), 338-356. https://doi.org/10.1177/08295735241266746