Executive Director of FASD Collaborative Project. Skilled in helping develop collaborative environments in the FASD and broader neurodiversity community with a focus on low-cost innovative solutions for evidence-based training, caregiver and self-advocate support, and professional learning communities. Special focus on helping organizations build their local capacity by challenging the silo-based approach to community development projects. Dedicated to promoting marginalized voices in the FASD and broader neurodiversity community.Clinically trained as a speech-language pathologist with work in hospital, clinical, in-patient psychiatric, school, and private practice settings. Designed and delivered instruction as an assistant professor and lecturer in higher education with focus on early language development and disorders. Passionate about mentorship of young scholars in the field of FASD and other neurodiversities, born out of experience with clinical supervision of graduate students and direct work/supervision of doctoral students and candidates. Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Communication Sciences and Disorders with a primary focus on environmental risk to development; cognate in neuroscience and cognition. Master's (MA) in speech-language pathology. Bachelor's in music performance and a second major in Russian Language and Studies. Sponsor and/or host to 11 Ukrainian refugee families currently in the U.S.