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Aeriel Ashlee

Company: St. Cloud State University

Position: Assistant Professor, College Counseling and Student Devlopment

Areas of Expertise

  • Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in college contexts
  • Supporting college students of color
  • Student Affairs and Higher Education
  • Asian American Identity, Community and Activism
  • Critical Race Theory
  • Transracial Asian American Adoptees



Education

Ph.D. in Student Affairs and Higher Education from Miami University in Ohio.


Biography

Prior to joining the CCSD faculty, Dr. Ashlee worked in student affairs and higher education for more than a decade in a variety of functional areas including service-learning, multicultural affairs, international education, and social justice education. Her research interests include critical autoethnography as healing and liberatory methodology, poststructural possibilities for student affairs praxis, and the racialized experiences of underrepresented Asian Americans in higher education (specifically transracial adoptees and Hmong Americans).

 

Dr. Ashlee earned a Ph.D. in Student Affairs and Higher Education from Miami University in Ohio; a M.S. in Counseling and College Student Personnel from the University of Maryland, College Park; and a B.A. in Strategic Communication from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.