Dr. Rachel Saunders

Dr. Rachel Saunders serves as a Instructor & Research Fellow at Clemson University on a DoE grant between Clemson and the high need district of Greenville County Schools (GCS). She is a former Assistant Professor at the University of Cincinnati where she served as the School Counseling program coordinator. She is a proud doctoral graduate from the Counselor Education and Supervision (CES) program at UNC Charlotte. As a researcher, she focuses her work on the role of school counselors promoting a culturally inclusive school environment and acting as agents of change within the systems of education through advocacy and leadership. With other members of this research collaborative, she plans to develop an evaluation tool for school counselors to assess their comprehensive school counseling program in the context of culturally responsive practices. She has been published in several different counseling journals, including Professional School Counseling, Journal of Child and Adolescent Counseling, and Journal for Specialists in Group Work.