Members

Consortium Leadership

• Joan B. Beasley, PhD, Consortium Director - Research Professor, UNH Institute on Disability - NH
• Andrea Caoili, MSW, LCSW, EdD, Director of Consortium Operations, Director of Research & Quality Assurance, National Center for START Services, UNH Institute on Disability - NH
• Luke Reynard, PhD, Consortium Chair - Executive Director, NFI North - NH 

Board Members

• Katie Curran, MAPP, Chief Wellbeing Officer, Proof Positive - NY
• Ravi Dahiya, Chief Strategy Officer, YAI - New York, NY
• Tawara Goode, MA, Director, Georgetown University Center for Child and Human Development - Washington, DC
• Luke Kalb, PhD, Associate Professor, Kennedy Krieger Institute - MD
• Susan Klick, Family Member - Hartford, CT
• Jennifer McLaren, MD - Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Dartmouth Geisel School of Medicine; Chief Medical Advisor, National Center for START Services - NH
• Alison Mohr Boleware, Director of Policy, Hogg Foundation at the University of Texas at Austin - Austin, TX
• Micah Peace Urquilla, Self-Advocate, Educator, and Community Organizer - KY
• Dan Tomasulo, PhD, TEP, MFA, MAPP, Academic Director, Spirituality Mind Body Institute (SMB) MA Degree Program, Core Faculty, Department of Clinical Psychology at Teachers College, Columbia University - NY
• Matthew Wappett, PhD, Executive Director & Research Associate Professor, Institute for Disability Research, Policy & Practice, Utah State University - Logan, UT
• Patricia Wright, PhD, MPH, Executive Director, Proof Positive - NY

Advisors

• Yona Lunsky, PhD, Director, Azrieli Adult Neurodevelopmental Centre, Senior Scientist, Adult Neurodevelopment and Geriatric Psychiatry Division, and Director, Health Care Access Research and Developmental Disabilities (H-CARDD) Program, CAMH, Canada
• Angela Hassiotis, MRCPsych, MA, PhD, Professor of Psychiatry of Intellectual Disability, University College London, UK

Research Partners

• Chithra Adams, PhD - Director of Evaluation, University of Kentucky Human Development Institute - KY
• Jenny Alexander, MA - Director of National Initiatives, The Arc - DC
• Ty Aller, PhD, LMFT - Research Assistant Professor,  Institute for Disability Research, Policy & Practice, Utah State University - Logan, UT
• Dan Baker, PhD - Internal Reviewer and Positive Support Lead with the Jensen/Olmstead Quality Assurance and Compliance Office, Department of Human Services - MN
• Jim Bedford, MD - Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill Medical School  - NC
• Alixe Bonardi, MPA,MS - Director of IDD Services Research, Human Services Research Institute  - MA
• Kristen Dahl, LPCC, CHES - Senior Program Manager, MHDD National Training Center, University of Kentucky - KY
• Nova Evans, MA - Senior Policy Analyst, Office of Mental Health Coordinator, Texas, HHSC - TX
• Brian Freedman, PhD – Director, Swank Autism Center, Nemours Children’s Health - DE
• Calliope Holingue, PhD - Faculty, Kennedy Krieger Institute - MD
• Diane Jacobstein, PhD - Associate Professor, Georgetown University Center for Child and Human Development - MD
• Jessica Kramer, PhD, OTR/L - Associate Professor, University of Florida Department of Occupational Therapy - FL
• Jessica Monahan, PhD, MSW - Spectrum Scholars Research Manager, Center for Disability Studies, University of Delaware – DE
• Marian E.  Ofonedu, PhD, LCSW - Director of Training, Maryland Center for Developmental Disabilities - MD
• Brittany Powers, MPH - Early Childhood ASD Projects Coordinator, Center for Disability Studies, University of Delaware – DE
• Katy Schmid, MS - Director of Education and Technology, The Arc - DC
• Ariel Schwartz, PhD, OTR/L – Director, UNH-4U, Research Assistant Professor, University of New Hampshire Institute on Disability
• Kathleen Shepperd Jones, PhD - Director, University of Kentucky Human Development Institute - KY
• Marc Tasse, PhD - Director, The Ohio State University Nisonger Center - OH