Nora Flanagan is a current student at Capital University in the counselor education program for clinical mental health counseling. While at Capital University Nora has been a part of Chi Alpha Psi, was voted Faculty Liaison and Service Chair of CAP, and serves as a graduate assistant for the undergraduate student success department at Capital University. Nora is interested in working as a therapist in a college and has a passion for helping trauma survivors of sexual violence. Before attending Capital, she coordinated the rape crisis services in Delaware and Morrow Counties for ten years and won advocate of the year from the Ohio Alliance to End Sexual Violence for the state of Ohio. She attained a certification as a Registered Advocate with Senior Standing from the Ohio Advocacy Network which denotes at least 11,700 hours of direct service with survivors. She received a Master of Fine Art with honors from Rutgers University with an emphasis on community participation in the arts. She intends to integrate expressive arts into her therapeutic practice. She graduated from Ohio Wesleyan University with a BA in English, Art, and minor in Sociology while also editing the writing magazine and enjoyed playing on the varsity soccer team. She lived in New York City for over ten years working in the photography industry and relies on the diverse lived experiences she surrounded herself with to help inform her counseling. In whatever she does, building community and connection remains her life work.