Dr. Meca was a speaker at the McKnight Annual Meeting hosted by the Florida Education Fund (FEF) in October 2017. Established in 1984, the FEF’s McKnight Doctoral Fellowship Program was designed to address the under-representation of African American and Hispanic faculty at colleges and universities in the state of Florida by increasing the pool of citizens qualified with Ph.D. degrees to teach at the college and university levels. As a by-product, it is expected that employment opportunities in industry will also be expanded.

Dr. Meca, a former McKnight Dissertation Fellow, was invited to give a discussion about the importance of post-doctoral positions as they relate to employment and served as a panelist on a Q&A panel for McKNight Fellows on the road to completing their doctoral degrees in psychology.