Episode 94 - Gender Diversity in Behavior Analysis w/ Arin Donovan + Kristen Lancaster

Meet Your Podcast Guests

Kristen Lancaster and Arin Donovan Kristen Lancaster (she/her) is a BCBA in Orlando FL and currently a doctoral student at The Chicago School of Professional Psychology. Her efforts to promote visibility for the gender nonconforming community are inspired by her 17 year old son as well as her co-presenter, Arin Donovan. She was recently part of a widely popular episode of the Behavioral Observations podcast on self-care and work/family balance and will be speaking at the upcoming ACT for Behavior Analysts Bootcamp in Fort Lauderdale, FL. Arin Donovan (they/them) is a BCBA in West Virginia, the owner of ARROW Health and Wellness, and doctoral student at The Chicago School of Professional Psychology. They recently publicly came out as non-binary in early 2018. Since then, their values of authenticity and being an agent for social change has driven their behavior to promote gender diversity, affirmation, and inclusion through education, language development and committed actions in the workplace and world at large. Together, Arin and Kristen created the Confessions of a Behavior Analyst Facebook group, a growing community that fosters values based on honesty, humility and kindness through the shared human experience of being a behavior analyst. Those same values are at the forefront of every gender diversity training Arin and Kristen provide as they aim to promote cultural humility in the behavior analytic community. They recently presented a talk on gender diversity and inclusion at ABAI, were featured in an interview for the ACT for ABA Facebook group, and have presented various CEU events and trainings for organizations across the United States.