Keynote Speakers

AUCCCO is very excited to welcome Andrea Iglesias and Glenda Russell as the 2025 Annual Conference Keynote speakers, they will present on Wednesday, June 11, 2025!

Andrea Iglesias


Andrea Iglesias, Psy.D. is a clinical psychologist who currently serves as the CEO and Executive Director at Urban Health Partnerships (UHP), where she leads health equity, community-driven initiatives.  As a director of outreach services in university settings and a community leader, she has worked to co-design culturally informed practices, policies, and programs in universities, organizations, cities, and regions. She has overseen over 65 health equity projects focused on social determinants of health and served as the Principal Investigator for an NIH research study to improve the health outcomes of the LGBTQ+ community via structural interventions.  Additionally, she has held leadership positions at universities, in state and national associations, and as a co-principal in North Star Project. Andrea previously served on the Association for University and College Counseling Center Outreach Steering Committee and later Board of Directors and is excited to "come home" to the AUCCCO. 

Glenda Russell


Glenda Russell, Ph.D. is a psychologist who has worked as a clinician, researcher, and training director in university counseling centers as well as in other settings. She has brought her training and experience as a psychologist to multiple activities and contexts, including through books, journal articles, and book chapters, but also through hundreds of professional and community talks and interviews throughout the country, a weekly queer public radio show, work in governance through the American Psychological Association, board work for community organizations, campaign leadership, and recently a blog

[https://toolsfortroubledtimes.wordpress.com/].

Last year, she received the Distinguished Contribution Award from the Society for the Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity (Division 44) of the American Psychological Association. 

How to Move Through the Now

This proposal describes a presentation that can fit any of the formats. These are complex times for academic institutions and counseling centers. Changes are taking place rapidly; many center staffs are worried about how to react. This session offers a conceptual framework and actionable tools for taking centers beyond reacting, moving instead to developing a vision of working with campuses as systems in unstable environments. We will give specific attention to how contextual differences (e.g., institutional type, geographic location, political environment) influence the potentials and constraints for given centers. We will work with attendees to outline a vision for their centers with a particular focus on outreach activities and the varied populations served. We will discuss and demonstrate an array of specific and concrete tools that we have used in different centers and contexts and work with attendees to consider how these tools might be applied in their settings. We will consider approaches that change academic-community climates and create a sense of belonging, while actively demonstrating how to enact these tools. We will also have some fun in the process of demonstrating how to resiliently move through the now.

Learning Objectives:

  • Presenters will explain a systems-environment approach that allows attendees to map out the major parameters impacting their outreach activities with an emphasis on potentials and constraints.
  • Attendees will gain experience applying a model for making decisions in volatile environments.
  • Presenters will demonstrate how outreach professionals can address social justice matters in a volatile environment.


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