Meet the NCF Team

Board Members

Lara McLachlan

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Mishel Alexandrovsky, PhD (C)

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Caroline Jose, PhD

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Nic Boileau, PhD

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Breony Ayers

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Brittney Cerritos Kroiss

Associates

Rosemary Richings

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Lacey Artemis

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Sydney Elaine Butler

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Gurpreet Singh

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Jana Buhlman

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Conor Forrest

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Honeyleen Gayon

Advisors

Nick Denomey

Jennifer Fane, PhD

Trista Otorowski

Stewart Leckie

Bridgette Hamstead

Students

NCF welcomes 2 students for Fall 2026:

  • Etien Olmos, a fourth year Bioethics & Philosophy double major student at the University of Toronto. Etien is working on our Healthy Aging project.

  • Chihiro, a 1st year medical student at University of British Columbia. Chihiro is supporting continued development of the CareSafer curriculum.

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Many thanks to the amazing NCF Students who contributed in our inaugural year 2025: Dakota, Honeyleen, Blue, Sneha, Fairuz, Haniya, Mohren and Anata who have made so much possible.

And thank you to Riipen for being the #1 experiential learning platform that connected us to many students.

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Supporters & Collaborators

Organizational Structure

The Neurodiversity Change Foundation (NCF) offers multiple ways to engage with and contribute to our work, reflecting our commitment to inclusive participation, clear roles, and ethical collaboration.

Individuals may be involved with NCF as Members, Advisors, Associates, or Board Directors, each with distinct responsibilities, expectations, and levels of decision-making authority. These roles are designed to value lived experience, professional expertise, and community leadership, while ensuring transparency, accountability, and alignment with NCF’s mission to advance systemic change for neurodivergent people.

Founder

NCF supporters founder leadership, an operating and governance model in which the organization’s originator retains primary responsibility during the startup, innovation and field-building phases of the organization. This model is designed to preserve coherence, speed and accountability when an organization is building something new that does not exist yet. For NCF, this model has sparked innovation, disruption, system change and comprehensive conceptual coherence - and we recognize it is a deliberate and widely used approach in early stage non-profits.

Members
Members are individuals who align with NCF’s mission and values and support. Members may contribute lived experience, sector knowledge, or advocacy support, and be engaged through any of the below methods. Members play an important role in strengthening NCF’s collective voice and accountability to the community and register through the website. The NCF Board will approve all member applications.

Advisors
Advisors provide subject-matter expertise, strategic insight, and guidance on specific programs, research, or sector initiatives. They contribute professional knowledge without governance or fiduciary responsibilities, and are allied with the goals of NCF in their work. They are interested in pushing NCF forward in the places where they already operate.

Associates
Associates are collaborators who actively collaborate on NCF values, initiatives, strategies and more in practice, as opportunities arise. They contribute to NCF programs, research, and/or communications and community-building efforts. This may be facilitators, researchers, creative contributors, students, or professionals working alongside NCF under clear shared principles and values for neurodivergent dignity and inclusion. The main purpose of the relationship with Associates is mutual benefit.

Board of Directors
Board members are responsible for protecting the organization’s mission, enabling the founder’s work and that of active organizational leadership, engaging in fundraising, contributing networks, governance and serving as strategic advisors to enable sustainable impact, removing barriers to action and contributing to supporting the success of the organization’s established mission and vision.