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AUCD Community Inclusion
AUCD’s Community Inclusion Team supports the University Centers for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities (UCEDD) Network in partnership with the Administration for Community Living.
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AUCD Maternal and Child Health Engagement
AUCD’s Maternal and Child Health Engagement supports the Autism CARES Programs, including LEND and DBP Programs.
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AUCD Public Health
AUCD’s Public Health Team works to create health promotion and public health efforts that include people with disabilities.
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AUCD Emerging Leaders Community
AUCD Emerging Leaders are a part of a community that includes trainees, early career professionals, self-advocates, and family members from AUCD member Centers and Programs.
Tia Nelis is a Self-Advocacy Specialist at the Institute on Disability and Human Development at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She is the newly elected President of Self-Advocates Becoming Empowered. She has been honored with numerous awards for her contributions to the self-advocacy movement, including the Burton Blatt Award by the Illinois TASH, the Elizabeth Boggs award from AAIDD, and the Participatory Action Research award from The Arc of the United States. Ms. Nelis has drawn on experiences relating to her own disability in promoting and demonstrating the benefits of empowerment for people with disabilities. She has wide experience in conducting training and advocating for progressive polices with legislators and public officials.
Lex Owen, MSW is a graduate student pursuing a PhD in Disability Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago and is a research assistant for the Institute on Disability and Human Development at UIC. Her research interests include sexuality and disability, and her dissertation will focus on how knowledge about disability is produced within prenatal testing contexts. 
Stephan Elizander Przybylowicz is a former Sonoran UCEDD Trainee and former Co-Director of UA Pride Alliance who graduated with their Master's degree in Information Resources & Library Science from the University of Arizona in 2012. Since then, Stephan has worked with adults on the autism spectrum in learning farming and independent living skills and currently lives in a large egalitarian feminist income-sharing community in rural Virginia. Stephan also enjoys rock climbing, hammocks, and potato products.
