Dr. Cassandra Storlie

Cassandra (Cassie) A. Storlie, Ph.D., LPCC-S (Ohio), NCC, RN (Illinois) is an Associate Professor and Doctoral Program Coordinator in Counselor Education & Supervision at Kent State University (KSU). She has held a variety of leadership positions in counseling at the state, regional, national and international levels. She has had an active history with CSI since 2003 as president of the Xi (Western Illinois University) and Rho Upsilon (University of Iowa) chapters, CSI Leadership Intern, reviewer for CSI’s Leadership Essay Contest and Chapter Grant Awards, six years as a CFA, three years as Chair of the Counselor Community Engagement Committee and served as Secretary on CSI’s Executive Council from 2016-2018. She is currently the Associate Editor for the Journal of Counselor Leadership and Advocacy (JCLA).

She is a past president of the North Central Association of Counselor Education and Supervision (NCACES) where she also served as secretary (2015-16). Dr. Storlie chaired the ACES Advocacy Interest Network (2013-2017), has served as an ACES proposal reviewer/mentor, and served on a variety of ACES taskforces. She chaired the ACES Bylaws & Resolutions Committee (2020-2021), was ACES Secretary (2021-2022), Co-Chair of the ACES Strategic Planning Committee (2021-2023) and was elected as ACES president-elect beginning July 2023.

Dr. Storlie has served on the Professional Advocacy Taskforce for ACA (2015-2016), co-chaired ACA’s Awards Committee (2019-2020) and has chaired the Ohio Emerging Leaders program for the Ohio Counseling Association (OCA) in 2019-2020. She was awarded the NCDA’s Diversity Initiative Award (2016), Outstanding Mentor of the Year for Ohio ACES (2017), OCA’s Writing & Research Award (2019), was the 2020 recipient of JCLA’s Outstanding Article Award and received the 2021 Qualitative Article of the Year award for the Journal of LGBTQ Issues in Counseling. In 2019, she was awarded Distinguished Faculty Researcher in the College of Education, Health & Human Services at Kent State University. She was the recipient of ACA’s David Brooks Outstanding Mentor Award in 2022.

As a Latina, Dr. Storlie’s research is focused on leadership and advocacy and the career development of Latinx/os/as and BIPOC communities. She was senior editor for the book, Counseling Leaders & Advocates: Strengthening the Future of the Profession published in 2021. She has been funded by the Martha Holden Jennings Foundation (2015-2022) to research and support college and career readiness among historically marginalized youth in Northeast Ohio. She has authored/coauthored approximately 50 journal articles and book chapters.