Newly Elected Board Members
Omaha, NE - Dr. Suzanne Scott, Chair of the NSCA Governing Board, is pleased to introduce the newly elected NSCA Board Members. Ms. Hannh Mayo is the 7-12 School Counselor at the Creighton Community Schools. Mr. Audel Salazar is a school counselor at Benson High School in the Omaha Public Schools. Dr. Thang Tran is the School Counseling Program Coordinator at the University of Nebraska - Omaha. While their on-boarding will begin immediately, these three distinguish leaders will all officially start their 3-year term on July 1st. The NSCA Board is excited about the leadership and fresh perspectives these school counseling professionals will bring to the NSCA Board. Congratulation Hannah, Audel and Thang.
Pictured from left to right: Hannh Mayo (Creighton Community Schools), Audel Salazar (Benson High School), and Thang Tran (University of Nebraska - Omaha)
Malinda Jean Baptiste is Next NSCA Executive Director
Omaha, NE – Dr. Suzanne Scott, Chair of the NSCA Governing Board, is pleased to introduce Malinda Jean Baptiste as the next Executive Director of the Nebraska School Counselor Association. Malinda brings a passion for advancing the school counseling profession, supporting and empowering school counselors, and seeing NSCA continue to grow and prosper. Malinda has served NSCA for over a decade in a variety of roles including communication chair, academy chair, president, and most recently as one of two Assistant Executive Director. While on the NSCA Governing Board Malinda played an instrumental role in the organization’s transition to the Policy Governance Model. As the Assistant Executive Director for NSCA , she has focused the bulk of her time on the annual school counselor academy and the school counselor of the year program.
In addition to her commitment to NSCA over the years, Malinda brings over 15 years of experience as a school counselor, most recently as the Team Leader at Lincoln Northeast High School. Malinda was recently named the School Counseling Specialist at the Nebraska Department of Education. Malinda is look forward to both her new roles with NDE and NSCA.
Malinda will begin transitioning to the Executive Director position immediately and will officially take over the position on July 1st. Ms. Jean Baptiste is filling the vacancy left by the retirement of current NSCA Executive Director, Doug Hauserman.
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