Emily Sallee is an Associate Professor of Counseling at the University of Montana as well as the Executive Director of the Montana Safe Schools Center housed at UM. Emily’s experiences as a professional school counselor led to her drive in training future school and clinical counselors in the higher education setting. Emily engages in professional advocacy by serving on the MSCA Board of Directors and in various other roles throughout the state. Her research interests include adolescent suicidality and non-suicidal self-injury, school violence and prevention, and advocacy for the role of professional school counselors. Emily is also the part-time school counselor at a K-8 frontier school and has a small clinical practice working with youth. While other people’s kiddos tend to be easier to work with, Emily has three of her own to wrangle, in addition to a growing menagerie and ever-increasing lists of books to read, foods to eat, and trails to run.