HomeResearch SeminarsAffirming and Inclusive Engaged Learning for Neurodivergent Students Seminar Leaders Share: Section NavigationSkip section navigationIn this sectionAffirming and Inclusive Engaged Learning for Neurodivergent Students Call for Applications Seminar Leaders Seminar Participants Seminar Logistics Kira Campagna, 2024-2026 CEL Student Scholar Major: Elementary Education Minor: Environmental Education Kaz Kelly, 2024-2027 CEL Student Scholar Majors: Psychology and English: Creative Writing Caroline Ketcham is Professor in Exercise Science at Elon University. Her disciplinary research focuses on motor control in neurodivergent populations, the management and recovery of concussions, and positive mental wellbeing advocacy. Caroline has been engaged in high-impact practice research including co-mentoring undergraduate research for student and faculty development, access and engagement for student-athletes, neurodivergent, and disabled students, and capstone experiences. She has been recognized as an outstanding teacher-scholar-mentor with college and university wide awards. Ben Krasnow, 2024-2027 CEL Student Scholar Major: Human Service Studies, Outdoor Leadership and Education Joanna Rankin is an Associate Professor in the Community Rehabilitation & Disability Studies (CRDS) at the University of Calgary. Her current work is focused on the development and piloting of a Radical Mental Health Doula model, EDI, and the systemic inequities and oppressions faced by disabled people. She draws from her background in Critical Disability Studies and her frontline work in the mental health sector. Dr. Rankin’s career goals are to bridge theory and practice and to enhance the methodological and ethical considerations of grassroots approaches in which research participants are not studied using a top-down approach but are co-researchers in a collaborative process. Thank you to Stephen Byrd, associate professor of special education at Elon University, for his 2024-2025 participation in the leadership team.
