About Me
In 2021, my family began a challenging journey: navigating my son's neurodivergent diagnoses, care providers, schools, and insurance claims. As I absorbed books, papers, podcasts, and presentations on neurodiversity, I saw a web of connections like the ones I had spent years supporting in other social justice movements.
The connections and gaps in the neurodiversity field captured my attention. I imagined the change that the field could make if its researchers and advocates were more connected and more supported. I saw the need for work I do well, in a movement I felt viscerally connected with.
But to participate in the field’s ongoing conversations, I needed additional expertise. I enrolled in a Master of Public Health program to focus on health systems and the determinants that affect neurodivergent populations. Academia opened a door to research in progress and to relationships with expert investigators and thought leaders.
I see that my education in this field will never be complete. My priorities are to stay informed about work across the neurodiversity movement and to connect people and efforts that have the potential to complement one another. Many colleagues shine a spotlight on a particular corner of our field: redefining sensory health, improving access to ADHD supports on campuses, expanding options for autism interventions. I support their work by holding up a lantern to find complementary inquiries and advocacy across the entire field.
My goal is to shine light on the connections between parallel efforts that don't know about each other: "Oh, you're working on Topic X?! That affects Population Y that another colleague is studying. You might be able to help each other. . ."
These connections are where I plan to devote the next forty years.
The advocacy and research I don’t know yet are the work I most want to learn about. If your work touches neurodivergence, systems, and equity, I'd like to know about it and share it with others in the field.
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