Jessie M. Sell - Consultant - Raleigh, NC
Jessie Sell is honored to be an independent contractor for Social Justice Consultants, LLC (SJCLLC). This opportunity will allow Sell to continue taking responsibility to help strive for social equality. Sell, comes to SJCLLC with a plethora of experiences throughout her 10 years working in higher education, private, public and not-for-profit sectors.
Sell, most currently, works as a full-time Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist at the Alliance of AIDS Services-Carolina located in Raleigh, NC. Her current role as mental health therapist serves to address the mental health, substance abuse and the various diversity and social justice issues that all too often impact persons living with HIV/AIDS. Her position frequently addresses how multiple dimensions of identity impact ones sense of self and their being in the world. Specifically, she addresses intersections among diagnosis, race, class, sexual orientation and religion.
Raised in Baltimore MD, Sell has had the opportunities to reside, work and study in Colorado and California. Throughout her personal, professional and academic life, Sell has predominantly addressed issues impacting the Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender (LGBT) community, white privilege, sex and gender issues related to rape/domestic violence and HIV/AIDS advocacy. Sell has been able to contribute to these areas of social justice as a counselor, therapist, trainer, graduate student, manager and ally.
Sell feels it is invaluable to be aware of one’s own identity, and how those dimensions of self impact others. As a person with privileges, as well as marginalized identities, Sell believes owning ones privileges in life, while drawing on marginalized identities is a personal responsibility. Furthermore, Sell believes this awareness is necessary in the ally work required to ending social injustice for others who often fall silent or simply are not heard.
SPECIALTY AREAS:
- LGBTQ issues ( Specifically, raising families, lesbian identity, interracial/same-sex dating, adoption, intersection of class and Transgender identity and military)
- HIV/AIDS (specifically, the intersections that class, religion, culture/race, sexual orientation, gender etc. impacts ones identity, feelings of self and sense of hope, oppression between/among marginalized communities )
- Women’s issues (Specifically, domestic violence, body image (although certainly a male issue as well) self-esteem and rape.
- White privilege
- PTSD symptoms stemming from oppression
- Mental health (the often invisible disability)
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