Meet Katherine Edmonds.
Our Highlighted Host

Kat has been with Neuroqueer since before it was neuroqueer, and it was Queer ADHD founded by Sarah Dopp. Monday mornings they run a weekly review for people to connect and get ready for the week. It is called “worming into the week” based on two queer worms who wear western wear, named Harriet Janet and Sheila. These worms are just trying to get through the week and not dry up on the sidewalk. Kat is passionate about neurospicy queers being resourced each week in order to contribute their truest selves to the world. Kat is a queer gender expansive artist who struggles with their mental health every damn day. One of their main objectives is to just continue to exist in the world so they can make weird creepy stuff and represent those of us who are too emotional, too sensitive, too weird.

Kat has explored a wide variety of careers, having held over thirty-five different jobs throughout their life. Their roles have often centered around education, from ski instructor and whitewater kayaking guide to college professor, preschool teacher, and woodworking instructor. Embracing their neurodivergence and kinesthetic learning style, Kat returned to the craft of woodworking with a renewed focus on the physicality of making. One of the hardest things as a working artist for Kat is to actually complete and share work. They often find playing possum to be an acceptable solution to actually being seen. Kat has a collective with two artist friends, Kacey Montgomery and Jamey Hudnall, called the Playing Possum Collective where they share the struggles of trying to move past the desire to play dead instead of sharing their art. Kat shares personal work at katherine-edmonds.com.

Currently, Kat co-operates Highland Woodshop, a community woodshop dedicated to offering access to woodworking to traditionally excluded folks, in Corvallis, OR. They teach classes, mentor members, and help manage the daily operations. In addition, Kat is co-founder of Playing Possum Collective, the brain-child of three queer visual artists, which hosts the Playing Possum Podcast. Kat also volunteers as a founding board member of the Oregon Sibling Leadership Network, a nonprofit supporting siblings of individuals with disabilities.

Meet the Coaches

Our core team of Neurodivergent and LGBTQ Support

Dylan Alter, JD, PCC, CACP, AACC (they/them)

1:1 Coaching, Groups, Workshops

From farmer, lawyer, and professor to ADHD Coach. NeuroQueer.org founder Dylan Alter (they/them) offers 1:1 & group ADHD coaching, co-working, workshops, and more. They've developed The PUG: A Personal User Guide To Your ADHD Brain, as a structured model for curating one's own ADHD support. They hold a PCC level certification from the International Coaching Federation, a CACP certification from The Professional Association of ADHD Coaches (PAAC) and an AACC certification from the ADHD Coach Academy (ADDCA.com). They are also a member of both the ADHD Coach Organization, and the ADHD World Federation.

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Edidiong Umoh
she/they

1:1 Coaching, Groups, Workshops
Edidiong is a Master Certified Professional Life Coach with a passion for Sci-fi/fantasy,
reading, envisioning a solarpunk future, and empowering individuals to embrace their
authentic selves and thrive in their own unique brilliance. With a rich background in
career and business consulting, as well as EI&D facilitation, Edidiong has guided
countless individuals through career transitions, business growth, and the alignment of
their goals and values. Grounded in principles of empowerment, mindfulness, and embracing unique needs, Edidiong specializes in working with adults, particularly focusing on supporting neurodivergent, queer, and BIPOC communities.

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Avi Schechter, (they/them)

1:1 coaching

Avi is finishing up their formal training at ADDCA (currently a Basic Coaching Trainee). They hold a BA in Holistic Psychology. They are an ADHD Coach who enjoys Star Trek, cats, and brains - but not in the zombie sense! Rather, starting with Avi’s own brain, they have explored how communication, processing, and learning are unique for each person’s brain.

Avi’s coaching stems from a place of kindness, patience, and frank authenticity. They have 10+ years of experience in coaching and training with diverse learners, with an emphasis on coaching in executive functioning skills.

Avi also has experience in working with fellow chronically ill and disabled folks. They specialize in working with individuals who are late-diagnosed ADHDers from marginalized communities.

https://www.empowermintcoaching.com/

Noor Sitara, MSW, CPC
she/they

Noor Sitara is a relationship strategist, intimacy educator, body language analyst, and neurodivergence coach. Noor approaches this work with a warm, curious, compassionate attitude through an intersectional, trauma-informed, biopsychosocial lens.
They especially love working with diverse and non-traditional partnerships and adult-identified, multiply-neurodivergent individuals and groups.

Camil Aponte, PhD, AACC (anticipated) they/them

Multiply neurodivergent (ADHDer and autistic), student at heart and a geek, more than 16 years of experience as an academic, educator, mentor, and curriculum developer at both university and school level. Latinx and nonbinary, Puertorican, fully bilingual (English/Spanish). I use my lived experience as an educator, neurodivergent person, queer, and parent of neurodivergent kids to help build a neuroinclusive society, this is why I became a Neuroinclusive Coach. Formally trained at ADDCA (ADDCA Basic Coaching Trainee).

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Nancy Vogl
she/her

Nancy first began observing personal power dynamics in 1969, and as an informal youth development counselor, has engaged in thousands of hours of transformational coaching. As an early groundbreaker in the LGBTQQI+ movement, she was a founding member of one of the first feminist bands of the 1970’s (The Berkeley Women's Music Collective) and in 1981, played bass with Unknown Gender at the First International Women’s Rock Festival in Berlin, Germany. With juveniles and adults, she draws from a wealth of resources in Motivational Interviewing, trauma informed behaviors, Choice Theory, personal exploration, Mind Body Medicine, and is a Master ACEs Trainer (Adverse Childhood Experiences). For 19 years she was Co-Director and Leadership Coach for one of the earliest Queer youth support groups in California. She brings a lifetime experience in communication, group process and transformational inquiry to foster emotional intelligence and well-being.

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Rose Slam!
Johnson

Rose Slam! Johnson is a connoisseur of play, depth, and trying new things. With a background in operations, compassionate communication, and facilitation, Rose is often recognized for being wildly attentive to detail, bringing clarity to uncertainty, and guiding clients towards purpose & action. A small business owner since 2009, Rose has been working with small businesses + visionary leaders in a variety of capacities. As a chef, event producer, fundraiser, and now as a small business coach, Rose brings a wide range of experience, empathy, and possibility to individuals, groups, and teams.

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Interested in being a part of our coaching community?

Many of us joined NeuroQueer because we were tired of coaching in isolation. NeuroQueer provides support and community for coaches as well as clients. We work together on professional development to ensure we're providing the best coaching possible to our clients.

We know cooperation and collaboration are the best ways to support ourselves and our community.

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