Science MINDS: Brian Boyd, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2023)
Brian Boyd talks with host Andrew Dakopolos about the summer camp that sparked his interest in autism research, and the importance of research that he and other colleagues are doing around intersectional identities. As Boyd shares, “What does it mean to be autistic and Black, or autistic and a sexual or gender minority? … people with autism are not in a monolithic group. They’re diverse in many ways, so understanding the diversity and complexity of autism is really important from this applied perspective.” Boyd is a William C. Friday Professor in Education in the School of Education at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.