You Are The Advocate Your Child Needs

In this episode Erika Watson sits down with Nadirah Mubarak, a mother to an exceptional student. Nadirah shares with us the arc of her advocacy journey and how she built her confidence with the special education advocacy process over time. Our conversation covers the benefit of engaging a peer-mentor, handling our own inner child with care while advocating for our children when we share an ADHD diagnosis, and the big question to medicate or not to medicate?

The truth is the educational advocacy journey is isolating and can at times feel intimidating. Family caregivers often struggle with guilt, worry, and doubt. This conversation will go a long way to helping you build your confidence, let go of guilt, and stop doubting that you are exactly the advocate your exceptional student needs to thrive. 

Erika Watson is the Founder & CEO of Intersection Collective. An experienced executive with a demonstrated history of transformational leadership in both the corporate and nonprofit sectors, Erika L. Watson is the Founder & CEO of the Intersection Collective. In this role, Ms. Watson leads the Intersection Collective and its focus on impacting the lives of children of color with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities, their families, and communities and supporting the evolution of executives on a journey to become more intentionally inclusive in their leadership. 

Her leadership, expertise, and oversight continue to inform the organization’s commitment and strategy to deliver exemplary, outcomes-based learning, coaching, advocacy, and community engagement.

Ms. Watson is recognized as a national DEI&A expert, with a career as an equity advocate that spans two decades. Prior to launching the Intersection Collective, Ms. Watson held national equity leadership roles with Easterseals, iMentor, and Leadership for Educational Equity.

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