Neurodiversity Coalition of America

The Neurodiversity Coalition of America (NCA) is a neurodivergent-led national coalition established by Fish in a Tree: Center for Neurodiversity Education, Advocacy, and Activism to build the practical infrastructure for neurodiversity justice in the United States. Chaired and governed by autistic, ADHD, AuDHD, dyslexic, and otherwise neurodivergent professionals, the NCA brings together leaders, organizations, and advocates to unite siloed efforts, set an annual National Neurodiversity Justice Agenda, and coordinate neurodiversity advocacy campaigns across education, healthcare, housing, employment, institutionalization, aging, and more. The Coalition amplifies neurodivergent leadership, establishes accountability structures for the growing neurodiversity field, and creates a unified national platform that shifts the neurodiversity movement from awareness to action, coordinated systems change, and justice.

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Board of Directors (To Be Announced Soon)

  • Bridgette Hamstead, MS

    BOARD CHAIR

    Bridgette Hamstead is the Founding Director of Fish in a Tree: Center for Neurodiversity Education, Advocacy, and Activism and Chairperson of the Neurodiversity Coalition of America, where she leads transformative work at the intersection of education, healthcare, and social justice. An internationally recognized writer, keynote speaker, and activist, she has been featured as a United Nations panelist for World Autism Acceptance Day and as the keynote for Global Neurodiversity Pride Day. Her work blends lived experience with scholarship to advance neurodiversity justice, build sustainable systems of neurodivergent-led change, and challenge structural ableism across institutions. She is also the author of the forthcoming book The Trouble with Being Good: How Late-Diagnosed AuDHD Women Break the Rules to Save Themselves, which combines memoir, research, and collective testimony to reframe survival as resistance.