Sara Al-Khedairy (she/her) is a doctoral candidate in the Counselor Education and Supervision program at Antioch University Seattle. Sara is the current Graduate Student Representative for the WACES region and a recipient of the 2023 NBCC Doctoral Minority Fellowship award. She currently resides and practices as an Associate Counselor in San Diego, CA where she specializes in working with consensual non-monogamy/polyamory, neurodivergence (Autism and ADHD), and racial trauma. Sara is the child of Egyptian and Iraqi immigrants and a first-generation college graduate, two identities that sustain and inspire her both personally and professionally. Sara's professional interests include advocating for clinicians-in-training and pre-licensed clinicians, increasing affirming care for consensually non monogamous clients, and infusing social justice practices into counselor education. Sara has recently facilitated professional presentations pertaining to equitable practices in counselor education admissions, advocating for pre-licensed clinicians, White racial identity development, and MENA representation. Aside from counseling, Sara is passionate about jazz music, reading non-fiction, cooking as much Middle-Eastern food as humanly possible, and spending time with her fur baby, Wesley.