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Dr. Elliott is the Co-Founder of ALGBTICAL
Dr. Glenda Elliott is a counselor educator at the University of Alabama
at Birmingham. She is an Associate Professor
Emerita at the UAB School of Education and is the Coordinator of the UAB
Safe Zone Training.
Glenda is a prominent LGBT advocate and activist. She has contributed
greatly to the advancement of LGBT rights.
Glenda received her Bachelor's and Master's degrees from the University of Georgia and her Doctoral degree from Kent State University. She arrived in Birmingham in 1973. She participated in Alabama's first pride parade and AIDS walk.
Glenda has a long record of professional activity and long continued professional development. She has contributed significantly to the professional development of counselors in Alabama through presentations made at professional workshops and conferences. In the past 10 years alone, this individual has made 76 presentations to and conducted workshops attended by school counselors and administrators, agency and private practice counselors, counselor education students, and other helping professionals.
Some of the settings include: Bradford Health Services. Employee Assistance Professionals Association. Many, many ALCA Fall Conferences. Southern Association for Counselor Education and Supervision. And, guest speaker at numerous colleges and university Counselor Education classes.
In addition to promoting the profession and the professional development of counselors through workshops and other presentations, this special person has contributed to professional development through services on the editorial boards of counseling journals. She served on the Editorial Board of The Family Journal, which is the journal of the International Association of Marriage and Family Counselors. She has also served on the Editorial Board of the Alabama Counseling Association Journal and published articles that promote the professional development of counselors. Her recent work has been published in the Alabama Counseling Association Journal and the Alabama Association for Counselor Education and Supervision Newsletter.
In addition, she is the outreach coordinator for ALGBTICAL, the Chair of the Coordinating Committee for the Alabama Safe School Coalition, the Coordinator of Training for the UAB Safe Zone Program and the Mental Health Liaison for the Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays of Birmingham.
In 2011, Glenda won the ALCA Fannie R. Cooley Distinguished Professional Development Award for the second time.
In 2008, Equality Alabama presented Glenda with the David White Lifetime Achievement Award.
In 2007, Curve Magazine named Glenda one of the most powerful lesbians in the south.
In 2005 Glenda was awarded the ALCA Wilbur Tincher Award for a Humanitarian
& Caring Person for her courageous efforts as the Chair of the ALCA Current Issues Committee
in particular and her overall contribution to the advancement of human
rights in general.
The following statement accompanied
the granting of the award to Glenda:
"The 2004-2005 year was a landmark year for ALCA, with the Current
Issues committee being charged with exploring GLBT issues in counseling,
with 2 new interest sections being formed, and finally, with both of
those interest sections being approved as new Divisions of ALCA. This
year’s winner of the Wilbur Tincher award has a vita that demonstrates
humanitarianism and caring for others consistently, year after year.
She has been an advocate for social change, at the grass roots levels
and in leadership and mentoring. In her work with the formation of a
new Division for ALCA, she has served as a role model, shared her time,
talent, and financial resources, and shared a sense of humor along the
way. She has founded or helped shepherd a number of advocacy efforts,
including UAB’s Safe Zone, Birmingham Alliance of Gay, Straight,
Lesbian, BiSexual, Transgender, and Questioning Youth, Compassionate
Listeners, Days of Equality for Equality Alabama, and most recently, one
of ALCAs newest Divisions, the Association for Gay, Lesbian & Bisexual
Issues in Counseling in Alabama."
LINKS:
Equality Alabama Awards Ceremony (Slow load, please be patient)
Call to Advocacy: ALCA Journal Article by Glenda Elliott
Alabama Safe Schools Coalition
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