Zyer Beaty

Current Position: High School Counselor

Location: Washington, DC

Degrees: Bachelor of Arts - Psychology, Master of Education in Professional Counseling, Doctorate of Philosophy in Counselor Education

Areas of Interest: Mental health in the Black community, international travel and college experiences, first year experiences for Black students at historically White institutions, and BLM in counselor education

Identifiers: First generation college graduate, Low income childhood, African-American

Mentorship Status: Yes, I'd like to be mentored by someone

Publications and/or Presentations: Beaty, Z., Cokley, R. and Parker, B. (2017 March) “I Am My Sister’s Keeper”: Exploring Black Women’s Experiences with Kinship and Betrayal after Sexual Assault at Historically Black Colleges and Universities. Program presented at the annual meeting of the National Association of Student Personnel Administration, San Antonio, TX

Beaty, Z., Cokley, R. and Parker, B. (2017 October) #BlackLivesMatter: But what does that mean for me? Program presented at the biannual meeting of the Association for Counselor Education and Supervision, Chicago, IL

Beaty, Z., Cokley, R. and Parker, B. (2018 October) Just Out Here: Black Women’s Early
Experiences in Counselor Education Doctoral Programs. Program presented at the annual meeting of the Southern Association for Counselor Education and Supervision, Myrtle Beach, SC

Beaty, Z., Cokley, R. and Parker, B. (2018 October) #BlackLivesMatter: A Framework for
Culturally-Conscious Counselor Education Practice. Program presented at the annual meeting of the Southern Association for Counselor Education and Supervision, Myrtle Beach, SC.