Reynolds events in July and August focus on disability activism with Ben Mattlin and autism care and research with Greenwall Foundation colleagues

Register now for A Bioethics Conversation: Autism Care and Research, on August 14, at 2 p.m. ET featuring Professor Joel Michael Reynolds, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Director of the Disability Studies Program, Senior Research Scholar, Kennedy Institute of Ethics, and faculty member at the Pellegrino Center for Clinical Bioethics along with three colleagues from the Greenwall Foundation.

The webinar will bring together panelists with three distinct perspectives to reflect on ethics issues in autism care and research and consider how bioethics can move the conversation forward. Register here  to hear from panelists Zuzana Kazan ; Brent M. Kious, MD, PhD ; and Joel Michael Reynolds, PhD  as they share their insights on these important topics.

• Ms. Kazan is a Clinical Research Associate at Baylor College of Medicine and autistic disability advocate.
• Dr. Kious, a Greenwall Faculty Scholar Alum, is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Utah.
• Prof. Reynolds, a Greenwall Faculty Scholar Alum, is an Associate Professor of Philosophy and Disability Studies at Georgetown University.

After the panelists present opening remarks, the webinar will shift to a moderated panel discussion, with audience questions welcomed. Registration can be found here.

On July 31, 2025, KIE’s Joel Michael Reynolds appeared at Politics and Prose Bookstore in northwest Washington DC in conversation with disability rights advocate and author Ben Mattlin. Mattlin was born in 1962 with spinal muscular atrophy, a congenital and progressive neuromuscular weakness. In Unbound, a collection of short essays, Mattlin “chronicles his intellectual coming-of-age including his beginnings, difficult conversations about disability, the social aspects of being disabled in a nondisabled world, and a wider perspective as the author looks back on his sixty years of disability. The book contains a variety of essays intermixed with a few edited podcast transcripts. Some of the pieces are deeply personal; others are stridently political.” Mattlin, a Harvard graduate, freelance writer and the author of four books and numerous essays in multiple media outlets, lives in Los Angeles and participated virtually in conversation with Reynolds, who was in person at the bookstore. The event was livestreaned and the recording is available at Politics and Prose’s Youtube channel.