Cameka Hazel is currently an Assistant Professor at New York Institute of Technology in the department of psychology and counseling. Dr. Hazel specializes in the supervision and training of professional mental health and school counselors. As a counselor educator, she is an advocate for holistic training for future counselor educators to be effectively prepared to meet the social, emotional and educational needs of the diverse K–12 student population. Her research includes multicultural counseling competence training in counselor education, mental health care for children and families of refugee status and trauma in children and adults. Dr. Hazel has presented at local and national conferences on subjects such as helping new school counselors thrive, reducing preventive and risk factors for school counselor burnout and Caribbean national migration experiences to the US, and acculturation stressors during the transition process. Dr. Hazel also works as a mental health clinician providing mental health services for children and families. She is also skilled in Cognitive Behavior Therapy and Mindfulness Therapy for Trauma recovery.