AACTE Welcomes New Holmes Scholars
AACTE’s Holmes Program continues to grow, onboarding new programs and Scholars throughout the summer. Join AACTE in welcoming Holmes Scholars from the University of Nevada Las Vegas and Old Dominion University to this vibrant community.
Lissa P. Love is a third-year doctoral student at the University of Nevada Las Vegas (UNLV). She is currently serving her ninth year at Clark County School District (CCSD) as a special education teacher (Autism). Previously, Love worked at CCSD for a year as a special program teacher assistant. Her various experiences working with students with disabilities and students from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds is the catalyst for research in culturally and linguistically diverse students and parents’ participation in the Individualized Education Program (IEP).
“As student demographics continue to change, with a higher number of students from culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) backgrounds qualifying for special education services, the need to understand and develop culturally and linguistically responsive individualized education programs becomes a critical component of service delivery for CLD students and their families,” said Love. “Yet, we don’t know much about how the development and implementation of culturally responsive IEPs shape student outcomes and parent involvement in the IEP process.”
Christine Marie Turner (she/her), M.Ed., NCC, is a Ph.D. student in counseling at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, VA. Her research interests include school counselor media portrayals, school counselors with intersectional identities, school counselor/administrator/teacher collaborations, Filipino American mental health, and arts activism. Turner is excited about mental health research and advocacy to help others like herself feel less alone.
After graduating from the University of Virginia (UVA) with a bachelor’s in sociology and Asian Pacific American studies, Turner was a college adviser with the Virginia College Advising Corps, an AmeriCorps program. She returned to UVA and completed her master’s in counselor education. Turner won the Grand Prize for American Counseling Association’s Ross Trust Graduate Essay Competition for Future School Counselors in 2015. Her background includes school counselor positions at a middle school and a high school.
Clarence K. Bumpas is currently enrolled as a Ph.D. student in counseling education and supervision at Old Dominion University. His research interest includes conducting behavioral and qualitative research about social class, environment, and upbringing on the human mind, especially in those in underserved/underrepresented populations. Other research includes the social class and hierarchy’s direct or indirect effects on human ecology, as well as the retention and matriculation in Black men in higher education and the field.
Bumpus, a first-generation African American male from an impoverished single-parent household, pursued his undergraduate studies at Kansas State University and the University of Northern Colorado on full athletic scholarships. He has applied his analytical and abstract thinking skills to multiple research projects, including the “Black Men’s Project” for the African American male community while attaining his M.A. degree at Colorado Christian University. Since graduation, he has predominantly worked in low social socioeconomic status/Title-1 school districts in Colorado Springs as a behavioral interventionist, affective needs classroom co-teacher, and paraprofessional; therapists at Color Collaborative (TOCC) as an independent contractor; and founded his private practice, The Minority Mental Health Initiative, LLC that provides affordable counseling.
If you are interested in joining the Holmes Community, please reach out to Nicole Dunn at ndunn@aacte.org or complete the Holmes Scholar Program interest form.
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