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About the Editors
Cassandra A. Storlie, PhD, LPCC-S (Ohio), NCC, RN (Illinois) is an associate professor and doctoral program coordinator in the Counselor Education and Supervision program at Kent State University. She earned her PhD in counselor education and supervision from the University of Iowa.
Storlie has held a variety of leadership positions in counseling at the state, regional, national, and international levels. She is a past president of NCACES (North Central Association for Counselor Education and Supervision) where she also served as secretary (2015–2016). Storlie chaired the ACES Advocacy Interest Network (2013–2017), has served as an ACES proposal reviewer/mentor, and served on a variety of ACES task forces. She chaired the ACES Bylaws & Resolutions Committee (2020–2021), serves as ACES secretary (2021–2022), and is cochair of the ACES Strategic Planning Committee (2021–2023).
Storlie served as secretary (2016–2018) and chair of the Counselor Community Engagement Committee (2013–2016) for Chi Sigma Iota International. She is the associate editor for the Journal of Counselor Leadership and Advocacy (JCLA). She has served on the Professional Advocacy Task Force for the American Counseling Association (ACA; 2015–2016) and cochaired ACA’s Awards Committee (2019–2020). Storlie was awarded the National Career Development Association’s Diversity Initiative Award (2016), Outstanding Mentor of the Year for OACES (Ohio ACES; 2017), Ohio Counseling Association’s Writing & Research Award (2019), and was the 2020 recipient of JCLA’s Outstanding Article Award. In 2019, she was awarded Distinguished Faculty Researcher in the College of Education, Health & Human Services at Kent State University. As a Latina, her research is focused on leadership and advocacy and the career development of Latinx/os/as and BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and people of color) communities. She has authored or coauthored approximately 45 journal articles and book chapters.
Storlie and her husband, Chad, have one daughter, Audrey. She enjoys distance running and playing with her two large dogs, Buddy and Derby. She is beyond grateful for the mentorship she has received throughout her career and especially from Barbara Herlihy, coeditor of this book.
Barbara Herlihy, PhD, NCC, LPC-S, is a professor in practice and doctoral program director in the Counselor Education program at the University of Texas at San Antonio. She is also professor emeritus in the College of Education and Human Development at the University of New Orleans.
Herlihy has served in several leadership positions, most recently as president of the Chi Sigma Iota International honor society (2017–2018). She is a past chair of the ACA Ethics Committee, the ACA Foundation, and the ACA International Committee. She currently serves as associate editor for ethics for the journal Counseling and Values. She is a past recipient of the Southern ACES Courtland Lee Social Justice Award and the ACES Distinguished Mentor Award. She is an ACA Fellow.
A prolific writer, Herlihy is coauthor (with Gerald Corey and with Theodore P. Remley) of three current books on counselor ethics, and she has authored or coauthored approximately 100 journal articles and book chapters. Her professional interests include ethics, social justice and advocacy, transcultural counseling, and feminist therapy. She is passionate about furthering the ethical globalization of the counseling profession. She loves international travel and has presented seminars and workshops across the United States and in other countries, including Mexico, Venezuela, Malta, Argentina, and Italy.
Meet the Contributing Authors
Patrick Akos, PhD, has professional experience as a school and college career counselor that informs his work as a professor in the School of Education at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His research, teaching, supervision, clinical practice, and leadership are grounded in a strengths-based framework, which is informed by humanistic traditions and empirically supported by contemporary scholarship (e.g., positive psychology). Broadly, he examines how best to support and cultivate thriving, especially during educational and career transitions.
Alexander T. Becnel, PhD, is an assistant professor in the Department of Special Education, Counseling, and Student Affairs at Kansas State University. His research interests include suicide assessment preparation, crisis management and intervention, and counselor leadership. He has also led several trainings and presentations on suicide assessment, prevention, and post-vention for school counselors. He has experience as both a school counselor and a clinical counselor specializing in the treatment of adolescents and their families.
Michael D. Brubaker, PhD, is associate professor and associate director of the School of Human Services at the University of Cincinnati. His clinical and research interests have focused on underserved and socially marginalized populations, including those experiencing homelessness; individuals who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+); and ethnic minorities. He is past president of Chi Sigma Iota International (2016–2017) and is the editor of the Journal of Counselor Leadership and Advocacy (2020–2023).
D. Robert Casares Jr., PhD, is an assistant professor in the Department of Counseling at Wake Forest University. His research interests include creativity in counseling, the clinical and educational utility of podcasts, and boomerang children. He maintains a part-time private practice specializing in couples and family counseling and hosts the International Association of Marriage and Family Counselors’ monthly podcast, The Reframe.
Christian D. Chan, PhD, NCC, is an assistant professor at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, past president of the Association for Adult Development and Aging (AADA), associate editor for the journal Teaching and Supervision in Counseling, and a proud queer person of color. His interests revolve around intersectionality; multiculturalism in counseling practice, supervision, and counselor education; social justice and activism; career development; critical research methodologies; and couple, family, and group modalities with socialization/communication of cultural factors.
Madelyn Duffey, MS, MA, NCC, is a doctoral student in the counselor education and supervision program at the University of Texas at San Antonio. She has served on the American Counseling Association (ACA) Professional Advocacy Task Force and the ACA Awards Committee, and she is the awards cochair for the Sigma Alpha Chi Chapter of Chi Sigma Iota. Madelyn received the 2019– 2020 Sigma Alpha Chi Chapter of Chi Sigma Iota Outstanding Entry Level Student Award and the 2020–2021 Southern Association for Counselor Education and Supervision (SACES) Outstanding Master’s Student Award.
Isabel C. Farrell, PhD, NCC, LPC, is an assistant professor at Wake Forest University. Her research is focused on the needs of marginalized populations, specifically immigrant, refugee, and Latinx/o/a clients, in addition to legislative professional advocacy. She was a 2016 National Board for Certified Counselors Foundation Minority Fellow and 2018–2019 Chi Sigma Iota intern. She is currently a committee member of the ACA Public Policy and Legislation Committee (2020–2023), Southern Associaton for Counselor Education and Supervision (SACES) newsletter coeditor (2020–2023), and editorial board member of the Journal of Counselor Leadership and Advocacy (2021–2024).
Emily Goodman-Scott, PhD, is an associate professor, graduate program director, and school counseling coordinator at Old Dominion University. Before this, she was a school counselor and worked in multiple mental health counseling settings. She is passionate about research and writing and has published over 30 peer-reviewed articles and two books. She presents across the United States, offering trainings, keynotes, and district partnerships. She co-coordinates the Association for Counselor Education and Supervision school counseling network, was the 2020–2021 president of the Association for Child and Adolescent Counseling (ACA division), and received the 2020 ACA Research Award.
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