Personal stories will be amplified by interviews with thought leaders and advisors from related fields, who will articulate the big questions, explore the concepts that shape our current systems, highlight conundrums, and propose innovative solutions.
ADVISORS
WANDA BLANCHETT
Distinguished Professor, Rutgers University Graduate School of Education; Lead Co-Editor of Multiple Voices for Ethnically Diverse Exceptional Learners
SHELDON HOROWITZ
Learning Disabilities Consultant; former Senior Advisor, National Center for Learning Disabilities (NCLD)
LINDSAY JONES
Chief Executive Officer of CAST, fostering belonging and Universal Deisgn for Learning. Former President and CEO of NCLD.
ADAM LALOR
Vice President of Research and Innovation, Landmark College Institute for Research & Training
PRIYA LAVANI
Professor of Disability Studies and Inclusive Education at Montclair State University, whose research examines the socio-political contexts within which people with disabilities and their families exist
NICOLE OFIESH
Director of the Schwab Learning Center at Children’s Health Council (CHC); Chief Innovation Officer, Potentia Institute 21
EXPERTS
ADAM GAZZALEY
A neuroscientist, neurologist, inventor, author, photographer, Founder and ED of Neuroscape, and UCSF Professor of Neurology, Physiology, and Psychiatry. Gazzaley introduces innovative interventions that address learning and attention issues, including meditation and video games.
ARNO KLEIN
As Director of innovative technologies at the Child Mind Institute, Klein prototypes and directs the development of mind-assisting technologies with the goal of making mental health assessment, therapy, and research more accessible, personalized, transparent, and trustworthy. Klein is a champion of open science and believes in the power of technology to deliver mental health care to all who need it.
JODY LEWEN
Founder and President of Mount Tamalpais College at San Quentin Prison, Lewen shares how teaching with an awareness of diverse cognitive identities—with or without diagnosis—helps men failed by the education system find meaning and academic fulfillment.
john a. powell (lower case intentional)
A civil rights scholar and activist who directs the Othering & Belonging Institute at UC Berkeley, powell offers insights into why we “other” groups of people and the path towards a more inclusive future where everyone belongs.
KENNETH PUGH
Director of Yale’s Haskins Laboratory, Pugh walks us through his neuroscience research into dyslexia and the real-time data being collected by and from students with learning disabilities.
A former monk, he also reconciles the worlds of science and faith.
DAVID ROSE
A developmental neuropsychologist and educator by training, Rose is co- founder of CAST, a nonprofit whose primary focus on improving education for all learners has grown into a new field called Universal Design for Learning.
ANDREW SOLOMON
Author and professor of social dynamics and psychology. Solomon shares his insights on parents who raise children with different identities and abilities and the particular obstacles of those with invisible disabilities.
