Karen W. Tao, PhD
Karen W. Tao, PhD, is a licensed psychologist, Chair of the Department of Educational Psychology and Associate Professor at the University of Utah, where she also directs the Culture, Diversity, and Well-Being Lab. She is a co-developer of the Multicultural Orientation (MCO) framework and co-chairs the APA Task Force revising the Multicultural Guidelines. Dr. Tao contributed to the 2025 revision of the APA Guidelines for Cultural Supervision in Health Service Psychology and has published widely on multicultural orientation (MCO) in psychotherapy and supervision. She speaks nationally on MCO in clinical training, most recently as an opening plenary speaker for the International Interdisciplinary Conference on Clinical Supervision. Dr. Tao was also the host of an award-winning PBS digital series on helping parents and caregivers talk about race and racism with children.
