Dr. Amanda L. Mollet (she/her) has been involved with ACPA for nearly two decades and currently serves as ACPA’s inaugural Vice President of Volunteer Leadership. Amanda’s tenure with ACPA is marked by a long history of association involvement and leadership. She is a past-chair of the Coalition for Sexuality and Gender Identities (CSGI) and also previously served as CSGI’s scholar-in-residence, and in CSGI coordinator roles. In 2021 Amanda was named as an ACPA Emerging Scholar. She is also a past-chair for the Graduate Students and New Professionals Community of Practice and has served in a variety of ACPA roles including the Governing Board, and 2014 convention team.

Professionally, Amanda is an assistant professor in higher education administration at the University of Kansas. As a scholar, the goal of her research is to change existing norms by engaging studies that provide evidence-based implications for equitable changes in higher education. Her research focuses on LGBTQIA+ college students with a particular emphasis on asexual and aromantic students. She has more than 30 publications—including six in ACPA’s Journal of College Student Development—and she has given over 70 presentations; many of these works represent collaborations with students and practitioners.