Dr. Seeber Conine is an adjunct lecturer for the criminal justice and gender and women’s
studies departments, and the branch campus criminal justice program located in Queensbury,
N.Y. She received her bachelor’s degree from SUNY PolyTech in psychology and her master’s
from Boston University in criminal justice and her Ed.D. from The University of New
England in education.
Her main research interests and dissertation focus on student disclosures and instructors’
responses of personal trauma in the online classroom. Rachel has over two decades
of experience advocating for crime victims at the local, state and federal levels
of government and has served four terms in local government as a supervisor at large
in Queensbury, N.Y. In addition to serving on numerous state and federal boards, including
being appointed to the New York Association of Counties Women’s Advisory Board, Rachel
was the first woman to be elected as the chair of the Warren County Board of Supervisors
in 2021.