Senior Program Coordinator
University of Texas at Austin
Leslie Jackson is a Senior Program Coordinator with the ACT LEND program at UT Austin. She is the mother of an Autistic teen son, whose journey inspired her to return to graduate school and earn an MSW in 2020. A dedicated advocate for Autistic adults and parents of Autistic children, Leslie has volunteer experience mentoring parents of children with feeding challenges and has worked in several interdisciplinary pediatric therapy clinics. Passionate about interdisciplinary care, she emphasizes collaboration in her work. In addition to her role at UT Austin, she works part-time for the Autism Society of America, where she supervises MSW interns and teaches them about disability rights. She also serves on the Autism Society of America's Justice Taskforce.
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