Advocates in Action

ICAA special guest,Kristina Chew is an Associate Professor of Classics at Saint Peter's College in Jersey City, New Jersey. She has published a number of articles about autism, disability studies, and literature, most recently in Gravity Pulls You In: Parenting Children on the Autism Spectrum (Woodbine House Press: 2010) and in Autism and Representation (Routledge Press: 2009). She has made numerous presentations about autism advocacy, teaching college students who are on the autism spectrum, and literature about autism. Since 2005, she has been blogging about autism at websites including Autism Vox and Change.org; she currently writes about life with her 13-year-old son, Charlie (who’s on the moderate to severe end of the autism spectrum) at We Go With Him (http://autism.typepad.com) and also blogs for Care2.com about education, health policy and disability. She is currently translating poetry by the Roman poets Virgil and Catullus and has also published a translation of Virgil's Georgics (2002).