Lucy is a Certified Rehabilitation Counselor with a master's degree in Rehabilitation
Counseling from UNT. She was previously employed by the state VR agency in Texas for
11.5 years where she served as a transition vocational rehabilitation counselor, a
unit program specialist, and an area manager. In her time with Vocational Rehabilitation
she participated in many committees and task forces including the DARS Transition
Taskforce and the Texas DRS Leadership Academy. Currently, Lucy is the director of
UNT WISE, a training and consultancy program housed in the College of Health and Public
Service at UNT. Training and mentoring staff continues to be a passion so she has
served as an adjunct professor for the department of Rehabilitation and Health Services
for the past decade. Lucy also enjoys working with businesses to improve diversity
initiatives in relation to hiring people with disabilities and serving on the Advisory
committee for UNT’s Neurodiversity initiative to improve post-secondary outcomes for
neurodivergent students.