Team

The Consortium of Louisville Independent Counselors (CLICC) provides additional layers of college counseling support to students working with any consortium professional, all of whom are members in good standing of the Independent Educational Consultants Association (IECA), the National Association for College Admission Counseling (NACAC), the Southern Association for College Admission Counseling (SACAC), and/or the Kentucky Association for College Admission Counselors (KYACAC).

Consortium members share office space, resources, data, and professional development experiences in order to assist students in crafting the strongest possible applications for college admission and merit scholarships.

High school students contract independently with the consortium member who best fits the student’s unique personality, interests, and needs but receive the support of all consortium members.

Each student’s college list, Common Application, and personal statement is reviewed at regularly scheduled consortium committee meetings. All consortium members provide feedback on the application via the student’s independent counselor, thereby strengthening the application and simulating a college admission office review.

Denise Park Parsons has over thirty years of management and consulting experience, the last ten years of which have been devoted exclusively to guiding students to the college of their choice as an independent college counselor.  Her professional experience has been augmented by her having lived in other regions of the country, where she developed a broad knowledge of institutions of higher education.

Ms. Parsons is the principal of College Admissions Planning LLC and holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Bloomsburg University in Pennsylvania. She has had careers in both the airline industry as a Regional Manager of Personnel in Baltimore, Maryland and education, serving as a regional education consultant in Dayton, Ohio.

Ms. Parsons is a coauthor of “Phenotype and Management of Aicardi Syndrome: New Findings From a Survey of 69 Children” (Journal of Child Neurology, February 2007) and the author of her first memoir, Touchstone: A Life Unseen (Ab Initio, 2014). 

Denise currently serves on the boards of Eastern Area Community Ministries and the Aicardi Syndrome Foundation. She has been a resident of Louisville for more than twenty years and lives there with her husband.“

Susan Harrison consults with Prince College Counseling students, assisting with portfolio preparation, recommending appropriate summer programs, and matching artistic specialties with appropriate college environments.

Susan is the founder of Brick Street Art Studios (www.brickstreetartstudios.com) and the current Visual Art Chair of the Kentucky Governor’s School for the Arts. She has developed comprehensive visual art programs and curricula for a wide range of educational institutions, including eleven years as an instructor at the Louisville Collegiate School and four years at Fort Worth Country Day School. Susan also served as an admission counselor and teacher certification program advisor within the School of Education at North Park University in Chicago. Additional university-level instruction includes printmaking, photography, and ceramics at North Park University; 3-D foundations at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago; and, sculpture and 3-D foundations at the University of Tennessee.

Having originally received her B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania, Susan also earned a B.F.A. in Fine Arts from The Corcoran College of Art and Design and an M.F.A. in Sculpture from The University of Tennessee.

Susan especially loves to mentor foundation students and work with them over a three to four-year span as they develop their art and design portfolios for competitive pre-college summer arts programs as well as for art school and university-level majors and programs.

SUMMER ARTS PROGRAMS
Chair of Visual Arts & Printmaking Instructor – Governor’s School for the Arts
Printmaking & Digital Media Instructor – Louisville Collegiate School
Lead Artist – Gallery 37 @ Hansen Park Elementary School (Chicago)
Printmaking Instructor – Anchor Graphics’ High School Program (Chicago)
Printmaking Teaching Assistant – Downtown Program, Gallery 37 (Chicago)
Art Instructor – KIDS U, The University of Tennessee (Knoxville)
Workshop Producer – Summer Academy of Arts & Science (Knoxville)
Instructor – Arts Camp, Texas Christian University (Fort Worth)

CONTINUING EDUCATION PROGRAMS
Printmaking Instructor – School of the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago)
Art & Photography Instructor – University of Tennessee Community Programs,

AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAMS
Sculpture Instructor – Living Arts & Sciences Center (Lexington)
Volunteer Art Instructor – Youth Outreach Services (Chicago)
Lead Artist – Gallery 37 @ The Christopher School (Chicago)

ARTIST IN RESIDENCE PROGRAMS
Qualified Roster Artist – llinois Art Council
Museum of Contemporary Art @ Mather High School (Chicago)
Charleston & Matoon Public Schools (Coles County, Illinois)
DuPage Children’s Museum (Wheaton, IL)
The Brown School – Creating Pride (Chicago)
Witness & Legacy Holocaust Project – The Knoxville Museum of Art @ Austin and East High Schools (Knoxville)
Meet the Masters Program – The Knoxville Museum of Art (Knoxville)
The Bonny Kate School (Knoxville)
Rural Outreach Program @ The Arrowmont School of Arts & Crafts (Gatlinburg)

PROFESSIONAL INTERNSHIPS
Middle-Level Education – Lyman A. Budlong School (Chicago)
Secondary Education Intern – Oak Park River Forrest High School (Oak Park, IL)
Resident Art Intern & Gallery Assistant – The Madeira School (McLean, VA)
Program Assistant, Curator of Education – The Corcoran Gallery of Art (DC)

PROFESSIONAL LICENSURE
Certified to teach K-12 Art in the states of Illinois and Kentucky