Dr. Shana Gelin is a faculty member at Kean University in the Counselor Education Department. Her research is actively focused on multicultural and feminist counseling issues, specifically, illuminating the Afro-Caribbean population and the intersectional perspectives of race, ethnicity, and gender in demystifying the belief of a monolithic Black identity. Dr. Gelin is an NBCC Minority Fellow and received several minor grants for my work both nationally and internationally. Dr. Gelin is currently collaborating with the John S. Watson Institute for Urban Policy and Research to assist the First Lady of New Jersey, Tammy Murphy’s 2.22-million-dollar legislation called the New Jersey Maternal and Infant Health Innovation Center Act (S3864).

Dr. Gelin’s clinical experience encompasses working as a counselor for adults, children, adolescents, and families across outpatient, school, crisis, and university settings for approximately nine years. She has diverse working experience in different settings (i.e., urban school districts, various clinical settings, and university college counseling centers) which allowed for the opportunity to counsel individuals of underrepresented social, racial, and economic backgrounds. As a counselor educator her goal is to not only teach students about critical approaches to counseling, but also promote critical thinking, cultural competency, and personal self-reflection.