Our Keynote Speakers

Dr. Virgil is a high school counselor and the 2024 School Counselor of the Year! She has been a school counselor since 2015 and currently works at Daleville High School in Daleville, Alabama. In 2021, she became an ASCA-Certified School Counselor (ACSC), in the inaugural class of ACSC recipients. Dr. Virgil has shown how school counselors can collaborate and advocate to help their students succeed.

Kristin Nye is an elementary school counselor and a School Counselor of the Year finalist. She has been a school counselor since 2005 and currently works at Anna P. Mote Elementary School in Wilmington, Delaware. She is passionate about challenging traditional ideas about school counseling by helping people understand that mental health is health and that school counselors are an integral part of education.