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Karen McNeil, MD (she/her) is our faculty sponsor. She is a Dalhousie Medical School and Family Medicine Residency graduate with over 15 years of delivering medicine in private practice. Karen has a special interest in the care of adults with developmental disabilities and has operated an adult developmental clinic since 2010. Karen also leads lectures, workshops, and curriculum design regarding disability and medical education. 

Sue Robins (she/her) is a healthcare activist, speaker, and author of the books Ducks in a Row: Health Care Reimagined and Bird’s Eye View: Stories of a Life Lived in Health Care. Sue has also written for The New York Times, Canadian Medical Association Journal, and The Globe and Mail. Sue can be found at www.suerobins.com and on Twitter @suerobinsyvr. 

Hannah MacLellan, BA '22, MSW '26 (she/her) is a disabled advocate focused on accessibility policy/programming, intersectionality, and human rights. In 2016, Hannah successfully lobbied for “Hannah’s Bill,” which progressed the descriptive terminology for people with disabilities on Accessible Parking Signs across Prince Edward Island and later resulted in altered descriptive terminology on six other provincial Acts. Hannah was a panelist at the 2019 Conference of States Parties to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. She is currently the Vice-President of the P.E.I. Cerebral Palsy Association. 

Shawn Jennings, MD (he/him) is a Dalhousie Medical School graduate who spent 20 years as a successful family doctor. Shawn suffered a brainstem stroke, forcing retirement from medicine; however, now as a disability advocate and writer, Shawn is the past president of the Canadian Association of Physicians with Disabilities and a published novelist. 

Rachele Manett, MA, CTRS (they/she) is a queer and disabled sexuality educator, and the host of That Sex Show on AMI-tv. She is the education coordinator at Venus Envy, an education-based sex shop and bookstore, where they organize and deliver workshops, lectures, trainings and other educational programming and events about sex and sexuality. She has a Masters degree from Dalhousie University, where her research focused on acquired physical disability and sexuality. Most of their work focuses on finding, creating and sharing resources on this topic for community members, educators, health professionals and those working in the disability sector.

Julia Gower (she/her) is a fourth-year psychology student at Carleton University. Julia is passionate about research and disability advocacy. Julia volunteers for the Carleton Disability Awareness Centre, and is the club executive for Access Carleton. Julia is a full-time wheelchair user with a diagnosis of cerebral palsy.

Donna Lee (she/her) is an educator and consultant who has worked with people with intellectual disabilities and those that support them for over 30 years. She has facilitated training with self advocacy groups and organizations providing disability services across the country in areas such as disability rights, self-advocacy, person directed support practices, and supported decision making. Donna has a graduate degree in Disability Studies from York University, taught Disability Issues at Toronto Metropolitan University for several years, and is currently faculty with Nova Scotia Community College’s Disability Supports and Services program.