Kelley Hollie, LMSW
Where scholarship and activism
meet the street.
Scholar, Social Worker, Consultant, Caregiver.
I examine Black family life – specifically, how autism is shaped by structural violence, racism, and ableism. Rooted in my community, I co-create research, resources, and policies that advance the safety, equity, and liberation of Black lives.
About Kelley
Scholarship rooted in community that centers autistic voices and caregivers.
Kelley Hollie is a licensed master social worker and doctoral student in the School of Social Work at Arizona State University. Her work focuses on interactions between police and the Black autistic community.
In particular, she explores how caregivers socialize autistic children to navigate police encounters using an intersectional, disability justice lens. She seeks to understand how engaging in that sort of protective labor impacts caregiver wellbeing. Kelley intentionally centers the needs, strengths, and experiences of severely autistic individuals and their caregivers in her work, recognizing that this population is often overlooked in academic research.
Kelley is also a caregiver to two children with autism and lives in the day-to-day reality of parenting children with disabilities while juggling the demands of work, school, and community involvement.
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