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Please welcome Margaret Gorman, OAR’s new programs and outreach associate, who began working at OAR on August 9. She is excited to work for an organization that affects people in a positive way, allowing her to “directly help individuals by answering questions and providing resources.”

Gorman is a 2019 Bryn Mawr graduate with personal and academic knowledge of disability and neurodiversity. She grew up with an older brother, Patrick, who has autism. While at Bryn Mawr, she served as the co-head of EnaAble, a club for students with disabilities. In that role, she worked with students with disabilities to plan and lead weekly meetings and organize special events. She also took several classes related to disability studies and wrote her senior thesis on the growth and development of the disability rights movement in America.

In her role at OAR, Gorman will manage the Graduate Research Grant Competition, Lisa Higgins Hussman Scholarship Program, and Schwallie Family Scholarship program. She has already begun expanding the sex education initiative and developing digital content for The OARacle, blog, and social media.

As she gains experience and knowledge of OAR and its audience, her motivation will remain the same, she says: To ensure that parents, siblings, self-advocates, and other supporters get the information about autism they need and to amplify the voices of self-advocates.