Dr. Cassandra Storlie

Cassie Storlie, Ph.D., LPCC-S (Ohio), NCC, RN (Illinois) is Professor in the Counselor Education & Supervision program at Kent State University, serving as the Doctoral Program Coordinator since Fall 2019. 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 for over 20 years, serving as a CSI Leadership Intern, reviewer for CSI’s Leadership Essay Contest and Chapter Grant Awards, six years as a Chapter Faculty Advisor, 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 Co-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 Association for
Counselor Education & Supervision (ACES) Advocacy Interest Network (2013-2017), has served as an ACES proposal reviewer/mentor, and served on numerous ACES committees and 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 served as ACES President (2024-2025). She is currently the Immediate Past President and the ACES Liaison to the Professional Counseling Leadership Coalition.

Dr. Storlie has served on the Professional Advocacy Taskforce for ACA (2015-2016), co-chaired ACA’s Awards Committee (2019-2020) and 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 and received the 2021 Qualitative Article of the Year for the Journal of LGBTQ Issues in Counseling. In 2019, she was awarded Distinguished Faculty Researcher in the College of Education and Human Services at KSU. She was the recipient of ACA’s David Brooks Outstanding Mentor Award in 2022 and currently is the Treasurer Elect Designee for ACA.

As a Latina, Dr. Storlie’s research is focused on counselor leadership and advocacy and the career and development of Latine and BIPOC communities. She was senior editor for the book, Counseling Leaders & Advocates: Strengthening the Future of the Profession. She has been funded by the Martha Holden Jennings Foundation (2015-2022) to research and support college and career readiness among youth in Northeast Ohio. She has authored/coauthored approximately 60 journal articles and book chapters.