Holly Brigman

Holly Brigman, a doctoral candidate in the Department of Special Education, Rehabilitation, Counseling/School Psychology, received one of the four Graduate Dean's Fellowships for the College of Education.

The other designees will be named later. Brigman, who is working toward a doctorate in rehabilitation and special education, began her term in this fall.

Brigman, an Asheville, N.C. native, hopes her degree will lead to a career in policy development or as a university professor or administrator. Her research interests include employment outcomes for consumers served by the state vocational rehabilitation system and post-secondary outcomes for persons with disabilities.

Brigman earned a master's degree in rehabilitation counseling from Auburn in 2009 and a bachelor's degree in education of deaf children from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Before enrolled in graduate courses at Auburn, she worked as assistant director for UNC-Greensboro's Office for Students with Disabilities and as a rehabilitation counselor in North Carolina's Division of Vocational Rehabilitation Services.