Meet the Community COLLABORATors

CHRISTINA DEVLIN (she/her)

Christina is a Registered Social Service Worker finishing up a degree in the Disability Studies program at Ryerson University where she has won several awards for her commitment to advancing society's understanding of equality and inclusion. She also holds a BA in philosophy from the University of Guelph with an area of concentration in psychology. She dreams of pursuing a Master's degree if she can figure out a way to fund it. She has worked with and for the Autistic community for almost a decade fighting for disability rights and social justice for all marginalized groups. Ethics has been a passion of Christina's since she was a little kid and her Dad instilled in her a strong sense of right and wrong. Christina's roles within the lab include working as a Research Assistant for the Autism and Math Skills Meta-Analysis, Research Assistant and Advisory Committee Member for the study on Autistic Women and Camouflaging, and Advisory Committee Member/Co-investigator for the Autism and Thriving study. As a cis, straight, white woman who has had the privilege of pursuing post-secondary education, Christina acknowledges that her lived experience does not represent the diversity of Autistic experience or that of being a woman, and she strives to bring an intersectional perspective to all of her work through her theoretical teachings in school and by following the work of BIPOC and other multiple marginalized neurodiverse folks.

LINCOLN TATE RIPLEY (he/him)

Lincoln Tate Ripley is a graduate of the University of North Texas with a B.A. in Psychology. He works as a Psychological Testing Technician with Spectrus Psychological Services, PLLC, a clinic that specializes in adult and gender minority presentations of autism and ADHD. He is an autistic autism researcher who focuses on critical validity of psychological assessments in Neurodivergent populations. In the future, Lincoln plans to pursue graduate school in Canada to dive deeper into his research. He hopes to help reconstruct current clinical understandings of autism to become more inclusive and reflective of marginalized identities and presentations. 

Mahwish Zaman (she/her)

Mahwish is a Psychologist from India, who has always been inclined towards learning the intricacies of psychological and emotional well-being specially among those who are under represented in the society. She has little research experience in the field of Positive Psychology and has currently volunteered at the AIDAN lab to understand and learn more about neurodiversity through an unbiased and multicultural perspective. She wishes to be enrolled at the University of Alberta and attend the AIDAN Lab in person but is still figuring out the funding and international law restrictions; But for now she is happy and super thankful to Dr. Brown for allowing her to be a member of the lab from overseas and definitely looks forward to more research experiences here.

Our Neurodivergent Team Members

Christina Devlin

Lincoln Tate Ripley

Danielle Thompson

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