Community Advisory Board

Members

 

Joel Boehner is an experienced education leader with over a decade of dedicated service in special education. As the Assistant Director of Exceptional Learners at South Bend Community School Corporation, he helps lead a department serving over 3,200 students with disabilities and is enthusiastic about driving innovative solutions through data management and visualizations. His career is marked by a commitment to improving educational outcomes, especially for students with disabilities, through advocacy and administrative roles. Joel is especially proud to be serving as a community advisory member for the BRAIN Lab alongside his adolescent child who is also on the advisory board.

 

 

 

 

Alissa O’Hara, MA, BCBA is a Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA) and the Senior Director of Clinical Operations at LOGAN Community Resources Inc. Her major focus is to lead the development, implementation, and management of LOGAN’s center- and community-based Autism programming for Indiana.

Alissa has been in the field of Applied Behavior Analysis for almost 10 years. She completed her undergraduate degree at IU Bloomington, and later completed her Masters of Arts in Applied Behavior Analysis at Ball State University. Shortly after, she became a BCBA in early 2019. She has a passion for serving individuals with autism and working to expand the reach of Applied Behavior Analysis to other areas of behavioral concern. She also likes to advocate for the continuation of ABA services into adulthood.

 

 

 

Kristin G Wier, MA, LLP, BCBA, LBA is a licensed Behavior Analyst and a limited licensed psychologist. She has worked in the field of Autism and Applied Behavior Analysis since 2000. She began teaching at Notre Dame in Fall of 2006 and has been part of the Disability Practicum Courses, Autism Practicum Courses, and autism-related research through the Shaw Center. In her clinical work, she was the Clinical Director of the Early Intervention Center in Birmingham Michigan from 2002-2006 before moving to LOGAN, where she is now the Chief Program Officer of Therapy Services for LOGAN Community Resources.

Kristin has extensive experience in applied work with individuals diagnosed with autism ages 2-69 years of age. She has worked through research and clinical application targeting: communication, social skills, daily living skills, adaptive skill development, and reduction of maladaptive behavior for individuals with autism and other developmental disabilities.

 

 

 

Heidi Miller, BSW, is currently the Community Liaison for the University of Notre Dame's Shaw Center for Children and Families. Before this, she spent fve years as the Lab Manager for the FUN Lab which was an autism research lab at the Shaw Center with Dr. Josua Diehl. She also has a 21 year old son who is on the spectrum and he was a summer intern in the BRAIN Lab the summer of 2024.

 

 

 

 

Kevin Hartman is Associate Teaching Professor of Marketing at the University of Notre Dame’s Mendoza College of Business. He has decades of experience helping the world’s largest organizations build deeper customer relationships while leading large analytics teams at Google, global advertising agency FCB, and as Founder & President of Nore Analytics and the Art+Science Analytics Institute. Kevin partners with major advertisers, creative agencies, and media companies to develop digital solutions that build businesses and brands. His approach mixes science and art to deliver inventive, fact-based strategies that reduce uncertainty and increase effectiveness in the marketing and advertising programs they create. During his 11 year tenure at Google, Kevin held a number of positions including Chief Analytics Evangelist. In that role, he served as Google’s global thought leader on all things analytics: data collection, data analysis, and data storytelling. Kevin’s time was spent meeting with hundreds of Google’s largest advertisers each year and establishing Google’s positions on analytics’ most challenging issues – including data privacy, digital measurement, and the impact of Artificial Intelligence – through whitepapers and blog posts. Kevin is a six-time winner of the Advertising Research Foundation Ogilvy Award and led the development of insights behind campaigns that won Cannes Lions, Effies, Tempos and dozens of other awards. He is the best-selling author of “Digital Marketing Analytics: In Theory And In Practice” and has more than 10 years of experience teaching graduate-level courses at the nation's top schools. Kevin holds a BA from The University of Notre Dame, an MBA from The University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, and a MPP from The University of Chicago’s Harris Graduate School of Public Policy.

 

 

Michael Waddell is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Saint Mary's College and Director of Autism Studies. He specializes in the philosophy of disabilities, particularly autism spectrum disorder. His research interests include Ancient and Medieval Philosophy, Philosophy of Religion, Philosophy of Human Nature, and Ethics.

He holds a PhD from the University of Notre Dame and has published extensively in his field. Dr. Waddell is currently working on a book titled Autism and the Catholic Tradition, which examines the relationship between autism and Catholic thought. His work aims to deepen understanding and foster inclusivity within philosophical discourse.