Nolan Krueger

Nolan Krueger is a Lecturer Faculty in the Department of Counseling at San Francisco State University. Nolan completed his doctoral degree in Counseling Psychology from the University of Texas at Austin with emphases in Multiracial identity, and the various health effects of Multiracial-specific phenomena on both psychological well-being and behavioral health for Mixed-race individuals. His research also focuses on minority status stressors, and the psychosocial experiences impacting students of color in higher education. Nolan received his Master's degree from the University of Texas at Austin in Counseling, and a Bachelor’s degree in Clinical Psychology from the University of California, San Diego. Nolan's clinical approach is guided by cultural humility and interpersonal/relational authenticity with expertise in strengths-based identity development, liberatory healing through critical resistance and radical hope, and decolonized praxis. He is currently a postdoctoral fellow at UC Berkeley's Counseling and Psychological Services.

Nolan's teaching experience includes his work as part of the Texas Prison Education Initiative where he taught university-accredited coursework at Lockhart State Prison in Lockhart, Texas. As a graduate student, Nolan assisted in teaching Psychology of the African American Experience as well as Engineering Communication. Nolan's goal as an educator is to employ critical pedagogy that generates transformational learning opportunities and strengthens learners' awareness of social justice values while improving their knowledge base.