Presenters

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Eunjeong Ko is a doctoral student in the Rehabilitation Counselor Education program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. 

As she highly values the disability justice mantra, "Nothing about us, without us," and the inclusion of voices from individuals with lived experience in research, she mainly focuses on community-based participatory 

Eunjeong Ko is a doctoral student in the Rehabilitation Counselor Education program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. 

As she highly values the disability justice mantra, "Nothing about us, without us," and the inclusion of voices from individuals with lived experience in research, she mainly focuses on community-based participatory research. 

In addition, her research and collaboration include psychosocial adaptation to chronic illness and disability (CID), and vocational rehabilitation for transition-age youth with CID. Her clinical work has been with people with serious mental illness and/or substance use disorder, and college students.

She is a licensed counseling specialist and addiction psychologist in South Korea. Alongside her clinical work, she has extensive teaching experience, including as an instructor for undergraduate courses on positive psychology, biological, psychosocial, and vocational aspects of disability, and substance abuse. 

She actively contributes as a student coordinator and representative for key symposiums and committees.

When it comes to imagining a more just and beautiful future, Rebecca dwells in

possibilities. Her devotion to authenticity and wholeheartedness is the spiritual

throughline of her work and of her practice of living as a late -diagnosed autistic woman.

In her role as co-founder and director – United States of the nonprofit Org School,

Rebecca 

When it comes to imagining a more just and beautiful future, Rebecca dwells in

possibilities. Her devotion to authenticity and wholeheartedness is the spiritual

throughline of her work and of her practice of living as a late -diagnosed autistic woman.

In her role as co-founder and director – United States of the nonprofit Org School,

Rebecca accompanies organizations as they rediscover their vibrancy, humanity, and relational agency. She delights in witnessing how seemingly mundane shifts can

engender a profound sense of liberation.

She is also the founder of Together in Beauty, where she accompanies individuals on the path of spiritual becoming. Some of her favorite topics to explore are the nature of truth, creativity, and what it means to reclaim our identities in a world content in telling

us who we are. She also provides end-of-life companionship, tending to the sacredness of transitions.

Rebecca holds a doctorate and master’s degree from the Sandra Rosenbaum School of Social Work at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is a licensed social worker and a board-certified coach. More than anything, she is a lover of beauty, her family, and the gift of learning to be who we truly are together.

Shain M. Neumeier (they/them) is a neurodivergent psychiatric survivor and attorney with the Committee for Public Counsel Services’ Mental Health Litigation Division.  

For the past seven years, both at CPCS and in private practice, they have defended people from civil commitment and involuntary medication orders.  They have also been an a

Shain M. Neumeier (they/them) is a neurodivergent psychiatric survivor and attorney with the Committee for Public Counsel Services’ Mental Health Litigation Division.  

For the past seven years, both at CPCS and in private practice, they have defended people from civil commitment and involuntary medication orders.  They have also been an advocate against the use of aversive behavioral modification and institutionalization at programs that use it.  

They have received numerous awards for their work, including the 2024 Paul J. Liacos Mental Advocacy Award and the 2018 Massachusetts Bar Association’s Young Lawyer of the Year Award.  

In their spare time, they play Dungeons & Dragons, go rollerskating, and spend time with their four cats.

Tarah Stangler (Tar-Uh Stang ler) is the Harm Reduction Services Director at OutReach LGBTQ+ Community Center and uses she/they pronouns. 

She is the child of a Korean immigrant, a staunch abolitionist and proud member of the LGBTQ+

community.

She dropped out of college in 2020 to dedicate her time to community organizing around abolition an

Tarah Stangler (Tar-Uh Stang ler) is the Harm Reduction Services Director at OutReach LGBTQ+ Community Center and uses she/they pronouns. 

She is the child of a Korean immigrant, a staunch abolitionist and proud member of the LGBTQ+

community.

She dropped out of college in 2020 to dedicate her time to community organizing around abolition and racial justice as well as mutual aid and has continued to spend most of her time outside of work over the last 5 years doing exactly that.

In their professional role, they use their lived and living experience as a

person who uses drugs to help the LGBTQ+ community navigate their

relationship to substances in a way that is healthy for them. 

She also focuses on providing education to the community as a whole as a pathway to ending stigmatization of substance use and ensuring the legacy that those who started harm reduction (Black and Brown folks, as well as folks in

the LGBTQ+ community and sex workers) is acknowledged and carried on.

Devon Price, PhD, is a social psychologist, professor, author, and proud Autistic person. 

His research has appeared in journals such as the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, and the Journal of Positive Psychology. Devon’s writing has appeared in outlets such as the Financial Times, Huff

Devon Price, PhD, is a social psychologist, professor, author, and proud Autistic person. 

His research has appeared in journals such as the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, and the Journal of Positive Psychology. Devon’s writing has appeared in outlets such as the Financial Times, HuffPost, Slate, Jacobin, Business Insider, LitHub, and on PBS and NPR. 

He lives in Chicago, where he serves as an assistant professor at Loyola University Chicago’s School of Continuing and Professional Studies.