Tori Guen has worked at Avenues as a dean of students and college counselor since 2020. She previously worked in college admissions, where she reviewed more than 10,000 applications and voted in committees to build incoming classes at Brown University and Colby College. At both institutions, she managed fly-in programs for underrepresented students and collaborated to see the strongest Questbridge student admits in the schools’ history. Tori has a Master’s in social work from Columbia University, where she was a Council on Social Work Education Minority Master's Fellow, and was awarded the Columbia University School of Social Work Mae L. Wien Prize and the Honjo International Scholarship Foundation Scholarship. There she studied clinical practice, counseled students aged 8-18 and coached parents in evidence based modalities to increase infant attachment. Tori graduated magna cum laude from Bowdoin College and is a member of NACAC, CANNY, and The Association of Black Admission and Financial Aid Officers at the Ivy League and Sister Schools. Tori is committed to equity and inclusion and wants all students to feel seen and known. She affirms that Black Lives Matter, Trans Lives Matter, and acknowledges that we are living on Lenni and Lenape land.