Andrea Parente (she/her) is a neurodivergent attorney pursuing an Educations PhD focused in special education. Grounded in resistant pedagogical and crip frameworks, Andrea’s research uses empirical inquiry to study the power which disabled people hold based on lived experience of disability. Her research asks, what can we learn from disabled communities in our efforts to support disabled students within the k-12 system and higher education? How can education research center the experiences of and build platforms for multiply marginalized disabled people as we build more inclusive educational spaces? Andrea is a graduate student research assistant at Temple University's Institute on Disabilities (IOD), where she works with students with intellectual and developmental disabilities pursuing inclusive postsecondary education. She works on a variety of research projects at the IOD related to education, disability justice, and self-determination. Isabella Ramirez de Arellano (she/her) is a Disabled German-Boricua activist and researcher focusing her work through an anti-imperial disability justice lens. Through her lived experience and formal education in Psychology (B.A.), Disability Studies, Public Health and Media Studies & Production (M.A), Isabella founded her own collective, named Expert Of Me – where self-expertise meets collective liberation. She expands this work by becoming an organizing member of the Diaspora Pa’lante Collective, a Puerto Rican diaspora and allies organization for a liberated Borikén. Isabella also serves as a Global Disability Advisor for Billion Strong, a global disability organization emphasizing our lived experiences. Most recently, she has joined 7 Billion Presidents as part of their activist council. Throughout every project, Isabella Ramirez de Arellano centers “being the expert of me” with theory and analysis to create an actionable future made for the people by the people.