Sara Sanders Gardner is the openly autistic designer and developer of Bellevue College's nationally recognized Neurodiversity Navigators program. As director of the program, they design curriculum, teach cohort classes, lead a team of staff, faculty, and peer mentors, and work to support disability inclusion and access across campus.
As the founder of Autistic at Work LLC, they also provide workshops and e-Learning in Neurodiversity Cultural Responsiveness for corporations and universities - discussing areas such as the social justice model of disability, cultural communication styles, and job accommodations. Most recently, they were technical editor for the newly-published “Neurodiversity for Dummies.”
Sara Sanders Gardner’s talk at Utah Tech University is titled Change the World Around You: Embracing Neurodiversity. The talk is Tuesday, January 30 at 12 noon in the Dunford Auditorium on the Utah Tech campus and is part of Utah Tech’s Trailblazing Speaker Series.
