Kristina Dooley, Founder and President of Estrela Consulting, was recently elected to serve on the Board of Trustees of the Independent Educational Consultants Association (IECA). Dooley, one of just three Certified Educational Planners in the state of Ohio, will serve a 3-year term on the sixteen-member Board. Chartered in 1976, IECA is a not-for-profit, professional association representing ...
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Estrela Founder Kristina Dooley was recently selected as the recipient of the Distinguished Instructor Award for 2018 from the University of California Irvine Division of Continuing Education. Kristina has been an instructor in the UCI Certificate Program in Independent Educational Consulting since 2014 teaching one of the program's required courses, College Consulting Resources, to students from ...
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Estrela Consulting College Planning Team member, Amy Rice, has recently been named President of the College Now Greater Cleveland Emerging Leaders Association (ELA). Amy succeeds Estrela Founder, Kristina Dooley, who served as the inaugural President of the ELA. According to College Now, the ELA is "a group of young professionals who are passionate about College Now’s work and are looking to ...
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