Speaker Bio | Pablo Juarez

Pablo Juárez is currently the Co-director of TRIAD, the autism institute at Vanderbilt Kennedy Center as well as VKC’s University Center of Excellence in Developmental Disabilities. He was born and raised in Austin, Texas where some of his earliest jobs were serving people with disabilities. After graduating from the University of North Texas and completing a few summer internships serving in a traumatic brain injury rehabilitation program, Mr. Juárez moved to Nashville to join a multidisciplinary brain injury rehabilitation team. He then attended Vanderbilt University for a master’s degree in special education. Mr. Juárez has focused on expanding services for children with autism significantly throughout Tennessee. He has previously served as a board member for Tennessee Disability Rights, Tennessee Equality Project, and Tennessee Association for Behavior Analysis and served on multiple workgroups through local, state, and national disability-focused organizations.  He also currently serves as one of the boards of directors for the Association for University Centers on Disabilities and The Arc of the United States.