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Patty Douglas is Associate Professor, Inaugural Chair of Student Success and Wellness and Director of the Centre for Community Engagement and Social Change in the Faculty of Education at Queen’s University. Her work focuses on cultivating access and disability justice in research, practice, and policy through critical arts-based, disability studies, decolonial, storytelling and other critical and creative approaches. Among others, Patty founded and currently leads the Re•Storying Autism project (www.restoryingautism.com), a longitudinal multimedia storytelling project transforming educational practice in Canada, New Zealand, and the UK. Patty brings dynamic experience to her roles as a former special education teacher, neurodivergent individual, and mom of two neurodivergent sons, one of whom attracted the label of autism Her book, Unmothering Autism, is available from UBC Press. For more information see