Kathryn L. Norsworthy is an international humanitarian psychologist and a professor of Graduate Studies in Counseling at Rollins College, whose work focuses on aiding women in the pursuant of human rights and leadership goals.
[1][2] In 2017, she was awarded the American Psychological Association (APA)’s International Humanitarian Award in recognition of her humanitarian projects and research in South and Southeast Asia.
[3] Norsworthy's work has focused on equality, cross-cultural counseling,[4] social justice [3] and feminist-liberation projects for the LGBTQ community[5] as well as for women in Nepal, Thailand, Burma[6] South and Southeast Asia, among others.
[3] In 2009, she also won the Florence L. Denmark and Mary E. Reuder Award for Outstanding International Contributions to the Psychology of Women and Gender.
International Handbook of Cross-Cultural Counseling: Cultural Assumptions and Practices Worldwide (ISBN 9781412959568), which she co-edited with Lawrence H. Gerstein and three other scholars, received the 2010 Ursula Gielen Global Psychology Book Award.