Speaker
Tiegan Boyens
Youth Researcher Panel Member in RE-STAR and Lived Experience Consultant
Biography
Tiegan Boyens is a lived-experience advocate, researcher, and consultant who does a variety of work based on her experiences and reflections on adoption and neurodiversity. She has been part of the RE-STAR project as a youth researcher for the last four years, engaging in all parts of the project from designing to dissemination. This has led to a range of wider opportunities, including collaborating on the book Improving Mental Health Therapies for Autistic Children and Young People. She is passionate about supporting positive change in all areas of life and other lived experience voices being heard.