Joy Pollard, PhD, BACB-D

Adjunct Faculty
joyp8@stanford.edu

Dr. Pollard is the Co-founder and CEO of Clinical Operations at Behavior Change Institute. She began her clinical work in the field of Applied Behavior Analysis in 2003 and has supervised multi-state TeleBehavioral Health services since 2011. Her research and clinical work has focused on leveraging technology to increase access, build capacity, and improve the standards of behavioral healthcare for families in rural and underserved communities. 

Leslie Quiroz, PhD, BCBA-D, LBA

Research Coordinator

Leslie is the Lead Research Clinician and Research Coordinator for the COACH Study. She is a doctoral-level Board-Certified Behavior Analyst with clinical experience in MA, NJ, TX, and NM across home-based, residential, clinic, and school settings. Leslie has served families in New Mexico using telehealth to address assessment and treatment of severe challenging behaviors in children with autism. Her research over the past 10 years has focused on interventions to teach early social skills and address severe challenging behaviors in children with autism. She has received funding from the Sidney W. & Janet R. Bijou Grant for her research on parent-child interactions with this population

Jennifer Boyd, BCBA

jaboyd@stanford.edu

Jennifer Boyd is a Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA) who provides ABA services for families and children impacted by autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in New Mexico. Jennifer first began working with children with ASD in 2013 with University of New Mexico's Camp Rising Sun, a specialized overnight camp that aimed to give children with ASD a "regular" camp experience. Since then, Jennifer has worked to provide compassionate care to families and children in a variety of settings including school, clinic, daycare and home. Jennifer is a graduate of Behavior Change Institute's esteemed Clinical Internship Program and received her M.S. in Psychology with a concentration in Applied Behavior Analysis at Purdue University. As a researcher and clinician for the COACH study, Jennifer's role is to work directly with caregivers in the many diverse communities of New Mexico.

Kristin Hustyi MA, BCBA, LBA

Kristin is a board certified and licensed behavior analyst with nearly two decades of experience in applied research and service delivery in behavioral healthcare. She serves as Chief Clinical Officer at Inspire Autism LLC, an early intensive behavioral intervention (EIBI) clinic-based program serving young children with autism. She is also an Adjunct Lecturer in the Stanford University School of Medicine Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. Her scholarly work has been published in leading peer-reviewed journals, including Behavior Analysis in Practice, Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, and Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders and has been presented at conferences nationwide.