National Office for School Counselor Advocacy (NOSCA)

Vivian Lee is currently Director, Counselor Advocacy at the National Office for School Counselor Advocacy (NOSCA) of the College Board where she has worked since June 2004. NOSCA is a dynamic office that is charged with advocating for school counselors on a national level. The overarching goal of NOSCA’s work is to advance equity and social justice in educational outcomes for all students, but especially for underserved populations. Much of Dr. Lee’s work centers on training school counselors to become culturally responsive practitioners who can engage in the systemic change necessary to meet the needs of all student populations. Additionally, Dr. Lee works with counselors, district leaders, and state departments of education, professional organizations and counselor educators to advance equity-focused counseling practice.

Dr. Lee is a co-director of the NOSCA-CSCOR Fellows Program, a new national initiative designed to build a community of young scholars by supporting doctoral level counseling students who are interested in pursuing dissertations in the area of college-readiness counseling. Since 2004 she has served as adjunct professor at University of Maryland, College Park.

Dr. Lee is a former teacher, secondary school counselor, director of guidance and counseling and full-time counselor educator at Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA and University of Scranton, Scranton, PA. She served as membership chair for Pennsylvania Counseling Association, trainer for the Education Trust National Initiative for Transforming School Counseling and, has authored and co-authored articles and book chapters on developing school counseling programs, conflict resolution and violence and, group counseling. Dr. Lee worked in public education for twenty four years before joining the College Board in 2004. She received her Master's and Doctoral degrees in counseling from the University of Virginia.

Dr. Lee continues to collaboratively support a library/school building project in Ghana, West Africa at the Tema Royal Preparatory School. The library, commissioned for use in 2005, is open to members of Community 7 which is served by the school. This project began as an outgrowth of her involvement in a Fulbright-Hays Scholars Group Project Abroad to Ghana, West Africa in 2001. She is a recipient of the O’Hana Award in 2008 by the Counselors for Social Justice.