It’s Personal

I bring to this work an extensive professional background — as an educator, a coach, and a researcher who has spent decades working with neurodivergent learners and the systems that serve them. But the expertise that drives this work is more than academic.

I am the parent of a child with learning differences. Despite years of training and a deep familiarity with educational systems, I found the process disorienting — dense with documentation, short on clarity, and structured in ways that consistently isolated parents from the information and support they needed. I trusted the system. I ignored my own instincts. The result was years of frustration and preventable learning loss, followed by expensive interventions that failed to address the underlying problems. I started educating myself, found my footing, and eventually became president of my town's Special Education Parent Advisory Council. It was only after building that foundation that I felt empowered enough to hire an advocate and a lawyer. The result: my child received the correct supports and flourished.

This work exists to help parents find their footing faster — to provide a thought partner with the professional expertise and the personal experience to help them read the terrain, identify what's missing, and empower them to advocate effectively for their child's needs.