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University of Georgia College of Education faculty member Anneliese Singh began her tenure as president of the Southern Association of Counselor Education and Supervision on July 1.

SACES is the largest of five regional groups that make up the Association for Counselor Education and Supervision, a division of the American Counseling Association (ACA). It is having its biannual conference in Savannah in September.

Singh, an associate professor of counseling, conducts participatory research and interventions in middle school aimed at reducing anti-Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer (LGBTQ) bullying and violence.

She co-founded the Georgia Safe Schools Coalition, in which she and several colleagues from UGA and other universities and students have developed and led several one-day workshops for area school superintendents, principals, counselors, teachers and staff  that focus on understanding LGBTQ youth and learning how to implement anti-bullying policies that support LGBTQ youth and Gay/Straight Alliances in their schools.

Singh has been recognized for her work with several prestigious awards including the Kitty Cole Human Rights Award (2009) and the Dissertation of the Year Award from the American Psychological Association (2006).

She received the Outstanding Teaching Award for the College of Education at the university’s Honors Day in 2012 and the Group Work Practice Award – Early Career from the Association of Specialists in Group Work, a division of the ACA in 2011.

Singh joined the UGA faculty in 2007. She received her Ph.D. in counseling psychology from Georgia State University.

For more information on SACES:
www.saces.org/home/home.asp