Mad Hatter Wellness creates a comprehensive sex ed and health curriculum that educates and empowers people with intellectual disabilities and their support systems.

They work with people of all abilities and specialize in health and sex education for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. They train families, caregivers, educators, and direct support professionals.

For the past 20 years, Katie Thune has worked with children and adults, both with and without disabilities. Her mission is to help people improve their quality of life. In her 12 years working as a school teacher in Saint Paul Public Schools, her most rewarding work was helping a child join Special Olympics or teaching a student mindfulness techniques at home.

Katie founded Mad Hatter Wellness in 2013. She has her Teaching License in Health Education, and Special Education K . 12, as well as her MA in Education: Development Disabilities. She also has her Autism Spectrum Disorder Teaching Certificate.

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‘Arrows’ was founded to empower autistic people's social skills, workplace integration, and personal independence and well-being.

Arrows' first product on the journey towards inclusion is the ‘Skill Coach’, a SaaS software for learning and practicing social skills through realistic conversations with avatars based on Generative AI technology, which is grounded in a leading international program.

The product creates a safe environment for dealing with various complex social situations. A central component of the system is a virtual social coach based on AI, which identifies errors in real-time interactions and provides the user with information and recommendations through visual cues and textual feedback to improve their skills.

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The College Autism Network links varied stakeholders engaged in evidence-guided efforts to improve access, experiences, and outcomes for postsecondary students with autism. ADVOCACY: CAN empowers college students with autism by amplifying their voices within the academic community and providing free access to materials to facilitate their successful transition into, through, and out of college.

RESEARCH: They facilitate research that uses qualitative and quantitative methods to examine the systemic, institutional, and personal conditions that shape college access, experiences, and outcomes for students on the autism spectrum. TRAINING: The College Autism Network conducts professional development workshops and distributes training materials to administrators, researchers, students, parents, and instructors

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Christy Nittrouer is a tenure-track, assistant professor in the management area at the Rawls College of Business at Texas Tech University. She earned her Ph.D. in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from Rice University.

She has raised over $1 million in grant dollars to support her research on allyship and the experiences of minoritized employees in the workplace from funding sources such as the National Science Foundation (NSF) and Texas State agencies.

Her work has received a variety of awards including the 2023 Texas Tech University Alumni Association’s New Faculty Award, the 2020 Ralph Alexander Best Dissertation Award from the Academy of Management, the 2019 Outtz Grant for Student Research in Diversity, and the 2019 Graduate Student Scholarship by the Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP) Foundation, and a 2019 Vaughn Fellowship awarded annually by Rice University.

She has 28 published peer-reviewed papers and book chapters (at outlets including the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), Personnel Psychology, Journal of Vocational Behavior, Journal of Business and Psychology, Journal of Organizational Behavior, and Harvard Business Review).

She has given over 60 presentations on the impact of diversity in the workplace, with a special focus on selection. Her work has been featured in The Atlantic, National Public Radio (NPR), The New York Times, ABC News, and the Houston Chronicle.

She was nominated for the 2023 Rawls Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching award and received Rice University’s 2020 graduate teaching award for her outstanding work teaching undergraduates. She has consulted for companies and served on panels for NASA, as well as LyondellBasell (global legal team), Exxon Mobil (affinity group), Baylor College of Medicine (medical students), Proctor & Gamble (global talent assessment team), and non-profits (selection).

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The Autistic People of Color Fund - At the intersections of disability justice, neurodiversity, and racial justice.

The Fund practices redistributive justice and mutual aid by returning and sharing money directly to and with autistic people of color. They provide microgrants to Black, Brown, Native, Asian, and mixed-race people in the autistic community for survival, organizing, leisure, and pleasure.

They are committed to the principles of Disability Justice, including leadership by those most impacted, intersectionality, anti-capitalist politics, cross-movement solidarity, interdependence, collective access, and collective liberation. Their work is grounded in the commitment to ending extractive economies and building and sustaining generative economies.

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