Tiffany Banks is a graduate research assistant for Human Animal Bond in Colorado (HABIC) and a doctoral student in the School of Social Work at Colorado State University. Banks has spent her career working with individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder and their families. She currently serves as the Executive Director of Rocky Mountain Sibs, a Denver based non-fort-profit that advocates on behalf of siblings in the disability community. She completed the Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental and Related Disabilities (LEND) program at the Kennedy Krieger Institute in 2009, and is an active disability rights advocate locally and nationally. Banks’ research pursuits have included animal-assisted intervention and parental stress factors for psychiatric-hospitalized youth with autism, policy gaps and how they effect sibling caregivers in the United States, and best practices in multidisciplinary work for dually diagnosed youth with autism.
