Shaun Lindow
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Shaun Lindow

Shaun Lindow is a technician in the FAB Support group at Texas Instruments. After finishing a tour in the Navy, Shaun worked as an artist, construction worker, carpenter, and machinist before ending up as a technician in the semiconductor industry.

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Kyra Desantos
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Kyra Desantos

Kyra Desantos is a Senior Engineer at Texas Instruments (TI) in defect analysis. She currently volunteers and leads the Lehi Chapter of Texas Instruments ABLE Employee Resource Group (ERG), which focuses on seen and unseen disabilities.

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Sarah Adia Heuser
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Sarah Adia Heuser

Sarah has a master’s of Clinical Social Work, and a bachelor's degree in behavioral science with an emphasis in psychology.

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Jared Stewart
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Jared Stewart

Jared was named the 2011 Educator of the Year by the National Association of Private Special Education Centers, the 2018 Presenter of the Year by the National Association of Therapeutic Schools and Programs, and the 2020 Hero for Autism by the Autism Resources of Utah County.

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Brett Barker
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Brett Barker

Brett is the VP of Learning and Development at Inclusive Agile, and a member of the Autism tribe. He "grew up" professionally in the software testing industry, but moved to a focus on training and developing people instead of software.

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Josh Olivas
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Josh Olivas

Josh (he/him) considered using AI to write this bio, as a robot writing about a robot seemed deliciously appropriate, but, unfortunately, he couldn't get past the CAPTCHA code.

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Candice Christiansen
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Candice Christiansen

Candice Christiansen is an adult-diagnosed cisgender Autistic, ADHD female, a licensed clinician, CSAT-S, CMAT-S, Certified EMDR, and IFS clinician.

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Mette Harrison
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Mette Harrison

Mette Ivie Harrison was diagnosed with autism in 2017 at 46. Like many older autistics, the family diagnosis began with the younger generation.

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Sam Ryland
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Sam Ryland

Dr. Ryland has been providing therapy since 2008 in his home country of Australia and in the United States.

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Eric Stoker
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Eric Stoker

Eric Stoker lives with his family in West Jordan and is the information specialist for the Utah Developmental Disabilities Council (UDDC).

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Samantha Easter
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Samantha Easter

Samantha Easter is a senior communications specialist at Mountain America Credit Union, concentrating on DEIB, personal finance, and professional development.

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