Mary Barros-Bailey, Ph.D.

Mary Barros-Bailey, PhD, CRC, NCC is a bilingual rehabilitation counselor, vocational expert, and life care planner in Boise, Idaho. She is the immediate past Chair (2007-2008) of the Commission on Rehabilitation Counselor Certification (CRCC) and served as the Ethics Committee Chair from 2005-2007. Mary was one of the founding members of the Inter-organizational O*NET Task Force (IOTF) that in the early 2000s collaborated with the US Social Security Administration and the US Department of Labor on the use of occupational data within the disability context. She is a reviewer or on the Editorial Boards of several peer-review journals such as the Journal of Counseling & Development (American Counseling Association), the Journal of Forensic Vocational Analysis (American Board of Vocational Experts), and the Journal of Mixed Methods Research (SAGE Publications). Mary has a doctorate in Counseling with a cognate in Rehabilitation Counseling from the University of Idaho. Her research and presentation interests include professional issues in rehabilitation counseling (ethics, methodological, aging, multicultural, and international). She has presented and published nationally and internationally.