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<p style="margin:0in;line-height:15.75pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">What content would you like to see more of at ACA Conference & Expo? Here’s your chance to help shape the program at next year’s conference!
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<p style="margin:0in;line-height:15.75pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">Share your expertise and knowledge with peers and colleagues from across the country at the 2025 ACA Conference & Expo, taking place March
27–29 in Orlando, Florida. We invite counselor clinicians, educators and students to help us build a rich and robust program that covers the most pressing topics in the profession.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;line-height:15.75pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">The call for proposals closes on July 14, 11:59 p.m. ET.
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Christine Suniti Bhat (she/her), PhD, LPC, LSC (OH)</span><span style="mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Professor & Chair, Department of Counseling & Higher Education</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Dr. Tommie Radd Professor of School Counselor Education</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Chapter Faculty Advisor, The Alpha Chapter of Chi Sigma Iota </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">The Patton College of Education</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">OHIO UNIVERSITY, Athens, OH 45701</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Fellow, American Counseling Association<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">President-Elect, American Counseling Association, 2023-2024</span></i><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Office: Patton Hall, 432F</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Phone: 740-593-4425; Email:
<a href="mailto:bhatc@ohio.edu"><span style="color:blue">bhatc@ohio.edu</span></a><br>
Website: <a href="https://www.ohio.edu/education/bhatc"><span style="color:blue">https://www.ohio.edu/education/bhatc</span></a><br>
Media: <a href="https://www.ohio.edu/experts/expert/christine-suniti-bhat"><span style="color:blue">https://www.ohio.edu/experts/expert/christine-suniti-bhat</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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