Bird Sellergren is a Ph.D. student in Education at the University of California, Berkeley, within the Language, Literacy, and Culture cluster. They are an educator and disability justice advocate committed to advancing autism acceptance and self-advocacy. Bird’s research examines autism not only as a neurotype but also as a political and cultural identity, exploring autistic epistemologies and relationality through the lenses of disability justice, decoloniality, and critical theory.
They serve as Executive Director and head facilitator of Bay Area Autism Collective, a nonprofit addressing social isolation in the autism community through autistic-led peer support groups. Through their facilitation and community-based practice, Bird works to cultivate spaces of mutual understanding, collective care, and equity within autistic and cross-disability communities. In their private practice, they collaborate with individuals and organizations on disability accessibility, neurodiversity inclusion, and autism-affirming coaching.
Bird earned a B.A. in Landscape Architecture from the University of California, Berkeley, and an M.A. in Cultural Anthropology from San Francisco State University.
Specializations and Interests
Disability Studies, Critical Theory, Black Feminism, Neurodiversity, Decoloniality
