Dr. Rachelle Sheely serves as the President of RDIconnect, as well as the head of professional training and supervision and adults with developmental disabilities.

Katie Shepherd is a speech-language pathologist and DIRFloortime expert training leader with the International Council of Development and Learning - ICDL.  She has been using the DIRFloortime model throughout her career to help her understand the individuals and families she supports and to promote communication, language, and overall development through meaningful interactions and relationships.

As the Executive Director of Education at ACE, Erika Anderson is responsible for individual RPM sessions, curriculum planning, goal setting, and instructing parents and professionals.

Holding doctoral level degrees in both School Psychology and Special Education, Dr. Marlo Payne Thurman currently sits on numerous advisory boards and is the President and Chairwoman of the US Autism Association.

Gil Tippy, PsyD is a Clinical Psychologist with a developmental practice offering support to parents and professionals around the world. He is one of the founders of the Rebecca School in NYC, along with Stanley I. Greenspan and others.

Magazine publisher and US Autism Association Advisory Board Member Amy KD Tobik, BA, is an award-winning editor with over 35 years of publishing experience.

David Wall began the late-identified autistic journey at age 49 after a life-changing conversation with a neurodivergent comedy class teacher led to working with an expert in adult autism. David has since seen a significant improvement in quality of life and has advocated for autism.

Carol Weinman is an attorney, autism expert, international speaker, mediator, author and parent.

Yasmine White, US Autism Association Advisory Board Member, is CEO and founder of Voices Together, a statewide music therapy organization reaching individuals and students across North Carolina.

Kate C. Wilde has spent the last 30 years working with children and adults on the autism spectrum and their families, as well as with therapists, educators, and schools.

Richard O. Williams spent 25 years in the medical sciences in academia, doing research and teaching around the word. He is the author of 85 peer-reviewed research articles on the molecular genetics and microbiology of infectious diseases. His interest in the world of autism started with his daughter, who was adopted in 1979 from Thailand at the age of two.

Theresa became a parent advocate as a result of her youngest daughter's life-threatening asthma, as well as her oldest daughter's diagnosis of an Autism Spectrum Disorder. She views health holistically and brings an experienced parent's perspective on raising healthy children affected by asthma and ASD to her advocacy work.

Rabbi Dr. Tzemah Yoreh is one of the intellectual leaders of Jewish humanism and the head of the City Congregation in New York city.

Ron Zimmerman is a lifelong journalist working for CBS, ABC, Fox and CNN. His live reporting has appeared on Good Morning America, World News Tonight, 20/20 and the BBC’s Horizon and Panorama.