Kara Reagan
Autism Speaks
Kara Reagon is the Associate Director of Dissemination Science for Autism Speaks, where she leads the organization’s international clinical program development and related capacity building efforts. She received her doctoral degree from Utah State University in Disability Disciplines with an emphasis in Applied Behavior Analysis, and is a doctoral level board certified behavior analyst (BCBA-D) and has worked with individuals with autism across the lifespan in a variety of settings for over fifteen years. Kara has published her research in journals including the Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, and had served a guest editor for peer-reviewed professional journals. She was a 2007 Mel Karmazin Fellow at the Princeton Child Development Institute and served as the Assistant Director of Adult and Community Living Programs for five years. Kara was an adjunct faculty at Rider University, and previously ran her own private clinical practice evaluating programs. Her current interests include advocacy for and dissemination of science-based interventions, scaling up and task shifting approaches in low resource settings, the treatment and prevention of severe problem behavior, and ongoing assessment of social validity.