Please join us for “The Unspoken Emotional Labor of Advocacy” with Santanna Ficken.
Santanna Ficken - They/Them
Santanna is an AuDHDer with a PDA profile whose perspective is deeply shaped by both lived experience and years spent serving children, families, and school teams as a Mental Health Practitioner. Through Minnesota Neurodivergent Education Advocacy and Therapy Services (MnNEAT), they hold multiple roles as a board member, speaker, consultant, and direct caregiver advocate in special education, with their role continuing to evolve into educational consulting and systems-level advocacy.
A central focus of their personal work comes from what they’ve experienced over and over again in systems that call themselves trauma-informed, while autistic trauma itself often goes unrecognized. They help bridge gaps in understanding autistic trauma through a disability justice lens and to reduce the harm autistic people frequently experience in spaces meant to support them.
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