Dear FNAME/Dear Dr. LNAME:

On behalf of the Association for Behavior Analysis International (ABAI)
Executive Council, I am writing to introduce and welcome our new
International Representative to the ABAI Council. Dr. Martha Hubner was
appointed to complete the elected term vacated earlier this summer. She
will serve the remainder of the term, from 2009 to 2011. Dr. Hubner is
uniquely qualified to represent international members and issues on the
ABAI Council. She is a Brazilian resident and citizen and Professor in
Experimental Psychology at the Institute of Psychology, University of
Sao Paolo; Coordinator of After Graduation - PSE-IPUSP. She is the
president of the Brazilian Association for Psychotherapy and Behavioral
Medicine, Brazil's most established behavioral organization and ABAI's
largest chapter, as well as past president of the Brazilian Association
of Psychology. She is also the Brazilian Liaison for the B. F. Skinner
Foundation. She has well established executive and association
leadership experience.

Dr. Hubner conducts research at the Laboratory for the Study of Verbal
Operants (LEOV) involving complex mannering processes in the acquisition
of symbolic behaviors such as reading, writing, human dialogue, and
verbal episodes. She is currently immersed in two groups of research:
investigating the empirical relationship between verbal and non-verbal
behavior and analyzing the processes of control for minimum units in
reading through the paradigm of relations equivalence.

Dr. Hubner is has committed her professional life to the international
development of behavior analysis and is fully prepared to represent the
needs of international members on the Council. Her first order of
business will be the solicitation of proposals for the 2011
international ABAI conference. We are very pleased that Dr. Hubner
accepted our invitation to serve on the Council. Questions and concerns
about international issues in ABAI and the field may be directed to her
at martha@hubner.org.br.

Sincerely,
Maria E. Malott, Ph.D.
Chief Executive Officer
Association for Behavior Analysis International