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University of Georgia College of Education faculty member Anneliese Singh recently won an American Psychological Association (APA) divisional award for her work in the area of ethnic minority lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender psychology.

Singh, an associate professor in the department of counseling and human development services, received the APA’s Division 44 Distinguished Contribution to Minority Issues award. Winners of this award have studied and worked with the realities of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people of color, locating scholarship and practice at this intersection of identities.

Singh 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 and students from UGA and other universities 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 before for her work in this area including the Kitty Cole Human Rights Award (2009) and the Dissertation of the Year Award from the Asian American Psychological Association (2006). She also serves as president of the Southern Association of Counselor Education and Supervision.

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 American Counseling Association in 2011.

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