If you are interested in joining a chapter, please refer to our directory of chapters to find out if there is a chapter or affiliate that meets in your area.

You can jump right to the directory here:

• ASAN Chapters in the United States
• International ASAN Affiliates
• International Partner Organizations

What ASAN chapters do

All ASAN chapters engage in advocacy work around the collective concept of self-advocacy, while also addressing individual forms of self-advocacy and building a community of Autistic adults in the local community.

Different chapters are formed under different conditions. Some may be formed by Autistics who are already part of an existing self-advocate run social group but wish to engage in advocacy activities as well. Others may be formed by Autistics who lack any social group in their local area, or who lack any self-advocate run groups.

The goal of advocacy is to help advance and protect the Autistic community’s interests in matters affecting us. Examples of advocacy/social change activities include:

• Alliances with other organizations to promote policy or social change

• Legislative testimonies

• Letters to the Editor/Op-eds

• Meetings with legislators

• Protests

Social/support/Autistic culture activities are geared toward building a strong, vibrant, welcoming, inclusive, and helpful community among Autistics. These community-building activities include:

• Autistic Pride Day events with a purely social component

• Cooperative efforts around skills development in employment/education/etc.

• Mentoring teenagers

• Social activities (e.g. picnics, movie nights, or joining a function put on by the broader local disability community)

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ASAN Chapters in the United States

California

Los Angeles 
Chapter Leader: Daniel Au Valencia
DanielAuValencia@gmail.com

Sacramento
Chapter Leader: Stacy Shaw
asansacramento@gmail.com

District of Columbia

Washington
Chapter Leader: Ma’ayan Anafi

Georgia

Atlanta
Chapter Leader: Bennett Gaddes
asan.atlanta@gmail.com

 Illinois

Chicago
Chapter Leaders: A. Burkhart and Timotheus Gordon, Jr.
ASANchicagoland@gmail.com

Kansas

Kansas City
asan.kansascity@gmail.com

Kentucky

Lexington
Chapter Leaders: Bev Harp and Ben Sherman
bevharp64@gmail.com 

Louisville
Chapter Leader: Micah Peace
louisvilleasan@gmail.com

Massachusetts

Greater Boston
Chapter Leader: Finn Gardiner
fgardiner@autisticadvocacy.org

Missouri 

Kansas City
asan.kansascity@gmail.com

St. Louis
Chapter Leader: Andrea Glant
jaglant96@yahoo.com

New Jersey

New Jersey State
Chapter Leader: Aaron Zisook
coordinator@autisticadvocacynj.org

New York

New York City
Chapter Leader: Elizabeth Rosenzweig
asan.nyc@gmail.com

Oregon

Eugene (Lane County)
Chapter Leader: Amber Perry
asperamber@gmail.com

Curry County
Chapter Leader: Erica Holmes
asancurrycounty@gmail.com

Pennsylvania

York
Chapter Leader: Luke Anderson
nonlinearluke@gmail.com

Tennessee 

Nashville
Chapter Leader: Chad Beadles
asannashville@gmail.com

 

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International ASAN Affiliates

Australia

ASAN Australia
Chapter Leader: Katharine Annear
girl_interrupted@internode.on.net

Canada

ASAN Vancouver
Chapter Leaders: Vivian Ly & Sam McCulligh
asanvancouver@gmail.com

ASAN Winnipeg
Chapter Leader: Baden Gaeke Franz
asanwinnipeg@gmail.com

 

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International Partner Organizations

Autism Rights Group Highland (ARGH)
Scotland/United Kingdom
Contact: Kabie Brook
kb@arghighland.co.uk

The Autism Acceptance Project (TAAP)
Canada
Contact: Estée Klar
estee@taaproject.com

The Autistic Community of Israel (ACI)
Israel
Contact: Chen Gershuni
chen_gershuni@hotmail.com

 

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