Lydia X. Z. Brown
Lydia X. Z. Brown is the Autistic Women & Nonbinary Network’s Director of Policy, Advocacy, & External Affairs. They are a disability justice advocate, organizer, educator, attorney,...
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Sharon daVanport is a disability justice advocate, speaker, and educator who serves as the founding executive director of the Autistic Women & Nonbinary Network (AWN). Sharon’s work encompasses...
View ArticleNancy Yang
Nancy Yang (they/she/nws/lawv/ntxhais/nkauj/muam) is a mad queer HMoob womxn and psych survivor. Their personal experiences and intersectionality make them passionate about advancing disability...
View ArticleElio McCabe
Elio McCabe (he/they) is a policy manager with AWN. As a neurodiverse transgender person, he is deeply aware of and connected to the advancement and maintenance of legal policies around LGBTQIA+ and...
View ArticleKayla Rodriguez
Kayla Rodriguez is a Puerto Rican autistic adult in Georgia by way of her native New York. She was trained in the Bobby Dodd Institute (BDI) Ambassador Program, the Georgia LEND (Leadership Education...
View ArticleJules Edwards
Jules Edwards is a neurodivergent Anishinaabe writer, gardener, accountant, and disability justice advocate. She is the parent of neurodivergent Afro Indigenous people, and care provider to many...
View ArticleMara Fritts
My name is Mara Fritts and I was diagnosed with Aspergers Syndrome in 2008. I have been married for fourteen years to my husband who was also diagnosed with AS in 2008. We have four children, three of...
View ArticleJessica Horvath Williams
Jessica Horvath Williams is a President’s Postdoctoral Fellow in Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Minnesota. She serves as the co-chair of the Critical Disability Studies...
View ArticleCorina Becker
Corina Lynn Becker lives in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. As well as autistic, she is nonbinary, asexual, chronically ill, and ADHD. Corina graduated from Wilfrid Laurier University in 2008 with a B.A. in...
View ArticleMorénike Giwa Onaiwu
Morénike Giwa Onaiwu, PhD(c), MA (she/they) is a global advocate, educator, disabled person of color, non-binary woman, and parent of children on the autism spectrum in a neurodiverse, multicultural,...
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