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President

Jenna Taylor is a Board Certified Behavior Analyst, and received her Masters in Autism and ABA from Texas State University, and a B.A. in Special Education from the University of Texas at Austin.  Originally from Southern Colorado, Jenna moved to Austin to attend UT in 2005. She has over a decade of experience teaching and providing services to individuals with autism and other developmental disabilities as an ABA provider, autism program manager and classroom high school special education teacher.  Previously, she served as ATX ABA Vice President for four years. Jenna has a passion for working with transition aged students and adults. Her passion sparked when working with her peer, Geoffrey Zaragoza, at her high school in a peer buddy program. Jenna to her passion and is now the founder and executive director of Independent Identity, a non-profit ABA based day program for adults with IDD and autism. In her free time (if she has any) she enjoys hanging out with friends and savoring every moment of being a new mom.

Vice President

Misty Gilbert-Romo is originally from the small town (500 people small) of Le Roy, Kansas. She moved to Austin in 2017 after an ABA/RBT job "fell on her lap" upon graduating with her bachelor's degree from the University of Kansas (Rock Chalk!). Misty worked as an RBT from 2017-2020 in a variety of settings serving a variety of ages, primarily children ages 2-14, while completing her Master's degree at KU and accruing experience hours to become a BCBA. Misty has been an active member of ATX ABA SIG since her RBT days (starting in 2019) after wanting to be part of and assist in growing a community of like minded professionals and advocates. In doing so, she helped advocate for a motion for RBTs to become official voting members of ATX ABA SIG, of which was passed. 

Misty has been a BCBA since 2020 and currently works as a Senior BCBA at ABA Connect. Misty is passionate about providing "televisable" compassionate ABA practices, providing quality supervision, and learning something new every day to grow her clinical skill set, with her specialties including: PEAK, ACT, supervising candidates pursuing their BCBA certification, and utilizing the PFA/SBT approach (of which she has recently received mentorship from members of Dr. Greg Hanley's team to ensure clinical integrity of these practice). In her free time, Misty enjoys spending time with her husband and family/friends, eating all the Tex-Mex Austin has to offer, reading, learning new things, attempting to keep her plants alive, traveling, cheering on her favorite teams (including her two time Alma Mater KU) in all things sports, and adventuring with their two dogs, "Rufus" (their stubborn Corgi) and "Oso" (their mellow GoldenDoodle). 

Treasurer

Ben Seifert is a doctoral-level board certified behavior analyst who completed his PhD in Special Education from Ball State University, earned his M.A.’s in ABA and Educational Psychology from Ball State University, and his B.A. in Psychology from Purdue University. He is an instructor for the ABA program at Ball State University and is the Principal and Founder of Collaborate ABA. 

Ben has been working in the field of ABA since 2003 and has been fortunate to work under the guidance of Dr. Susan Wilczynski, Dr. Carl Sundberg, Dr. Patrick McGreevy, Dr. Mark Sundberg, Dr. John Esch, Dr. Barbera Esch, and Dr. Peter Gerhardt. He has experience working with all ages in home programs, schools, and center-based therapy. Ben works with individuals of all ages; however, he specializes in working with adolescents and adults.  

Ben met his wife Karie (also a BCBA!) while working at the Behavior Analysis Center for Autism in Indiana. Ben and Karie moved to Austin, Texas in 2014 and have been thankful for the warmer Texas winters! Ben and Karie have a son named Jordan and they enjoy spending a lot of time together as a family. They love college football, going to movies, and spending time with family. 

CEU Coordinator

Natalija Milutinovic graduated from Southwestern University in 2006 with a Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics. Natalija's interest in the field began prior to this, when a close family member was diagnosed with Autism. As she learned about various available treatments for individuals with disabilities, she became passionate about ABA. In 2008, she started working with an early childhood population, and has not stopped since. Natalija completed her Master’s degree in Special Education in 2009 from Texas State University and became a Board Certified Behavior Analyst in 2011. Natalija’s experience in the field includes program implementation in the home, community, tele-health, and clinical settings, with a variety of learners ranging from 18 months – 20 years of age. Natalija also supervises staff and oversees ABA programs in Serbia utilizing tele-health services in order to increase awareness and understanding of ABA. 

Natalija is currently a Chief Training Officer at Children's Autism Center. She trains graduate students who are completing their fieldwork experience to sit for the board exam. Through the apprenticeship program, Natalija meets with her supervisees to establish short and long term goals, leads weekly group meetings, organizes monthly all-staff meetings, collaborates with trainers, helps create applied projects, and leads interviews with experts in the field. Natalija also heads research projects at CAC in collaboration with Arizona State University (ASU). She continues to advocate for, hang out with, and support her adult family member with Autism. During her spare time Natalija enjoys hanging out with her daughter, husband and dog, doing yoga, watching true crime documentaries and listening to podcasts.