Monday, September 21 EMPOWER 11:00 – 1:00 p.m. Katherine McLaughlin: Becoming a Sexual Self Advocate 1:00 – 2:00 p.m. Lydia Brown: Access and Care

YOUR Tuesday, September 22 11:00 – 12:00 p.m. Max Barrows: Empower Your Voice! VOICE 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. Russell Lehmann: Don’t Stop Dreaming, a Journey

Wednesday, September 23 ND Self Advocacy 11:00 – 12:00 p.m. Lydia Brown: Justice  2020 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. Russell Lehmann: Taking Risks and Leading with Compassion

Katherine McLaughlin, M.Ed., AASECT Certified Sexuality Max Barrows is outreach director for Green Mountain Self- Educator, is the founder, CEO and lead trainer for Elevatus Advocates, a position he has held since 2007. He mentors Training. As a national expert on sexuality and I/DD she trains youth and adults with developmental to speak up professionals, and parents as well as individuals to become for themselves and become leaders. GMSA is a lead partner of sexual self-advocates, and peer sexuality educators. She is the the Self-Advocacy Resource and Technical Assistance Center. author of the, Sexuality Education for People with Developmental Max leads SARTAC’s technical assistance team assisting local Disabilities curriculum. She has developed two online courses: and state self-advocacy organizations across the nation. Max and Sexuality 101 for professionals and Talking to Your connects with people on all levels advocating for true of people with Kids: Developmental Disabilities and Sexuality for parents, and a three-day certificate developmental disabilities. In his work, he advances the message that when you training: Becoming a Sexuality Educator and Trainer. She has spent her 25+ year meet an individual with a disability, presume competence. He received a White career committed to elevating the status of all people, which is why the name of her House Champions of Change award for this work in 2015 and Champion of Equal growing company is Elevatus Training. Contact Katherine at elevatustraining.com Opportunity award from the National Association of Councils on Developmental Disabilities in 2019.

Lydia X. Z. Brown is a disability justice advocate, organizer, educator, attorney, strategist, and writer whose work has largely Russell Lehmann is an award-winning and internationally focused on violence against multiply-marginalized disabled recognized motivational speaker and poet with a platform of people, especially institutionalization, incarceration, and policing. autism and mental health. A graduate of MIT’s “Leadership in They have worked to advance transformative change through the Digital Age” course, Russell is a council member for the organizing in the streets, writing legislation, conducting anti- Autism Society of America, the Youth Ambassador for the mayor workshops, testifying at regulatory and policy hearings, of Reno, Nevada, and has also sat on the Nevada Governor’s and disrupting institutional complacency everywhere from academia to state Council on Developmental Disabilities as well as the Nevada agencies and the nonprofit-industrial complex. Commission on Disorders. Russell showed signs of autism as a newborn; however, he was not formally diagnosed until the age of 12 after suffering through five weeks in a lock-down psychiatric facility.