Dr. Bennett is a graduate of New York University's Postdoctoral Program in Psychology and Psychoanalysis where she was the former Co-Chair of The Diversity Fellowship Committee. She is a Fellow at the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research (IPTAR), Supervisor at the National Institute for the Psychotherapies (NIP), the Derner Institute (Adelphi University) and an Adjunct Medical Professor at the City University of New York School of Medicine. She was the former Director of the Postdoctoral Program in College Mental Health at Columbia University's Counseling and Psychological Services. She has a full-time private practice and has presented and written extensively about race and cultural issues in psychoanalysis.