_edited.jpg)
Why This Conference Matters
Intersectionality is frequently left out of the conversation.
Black individuals with ADHD often navigate more than ADHD alone. Their experiences may also be shaped by racism, ableism, cultural misunderstanding, delayed identification, misdiagnosis, disproportionate discipline, and limited access to culturally responsive, affirming support.
The Black ADHD Experience Conference was created to bring these conversations together in one intentionally Black-centered, neuroaffirming, and anti-ableist space. This conference recognizes that meaningful ADHD support must consider the whole person—their culture, identity, relationships, environment, lived experience, and access needs.
What Makes This Conference Different
-
Black-centered
-
Neuroaffirming
-
Anti-ableist
-
Culturally responsive
-
Lived-experience-informed
-
Intersectional across education, mental health, healthcare, family, relationships, and adulthood
Who This Conference Is For
-
Black ADHDers
-
Parents/caregivers/families
-
Educators and school staff
-
Mental health and healthcare professionals
-
Advocates
-
Community organizations
-
People who want to better support Black ADHDers
Presentations
Live Recordings
-
Dr. Destiny Huff, LPC - Why The Black ADHD Experience Conference Matters
-
Stacy Badon - Room to Be a Nerd: Rethinking What We Expect From Black Boys
-
Dr. Carliss Miller - Beyond Orientation: What Black ADHD Students Need to Know Before the First Day of College
-
Keisha and Ava Berry - A Mother's Expertise, Daughter's Voice: Understanding ADHD Together
-
Dr. Berry Pierre - ADHD Beyond the Classroom: What Black Families Need to Know About Health, Treatment, and the Healthcare System
-
Education Panel - Taniah Johnson, Shontaye Glover-Jones, Stacy Badon, Brittany Polonio, MA, and Dr. Carliss Miller
-
Dr. Candace Holmes - Beyond Behavior: Rethinking How We See ADHD in Black Children
-
Mental Health Panel - Kathleen Johnson, Dr. Toni Solaru, Veronica Sweeney-Bird, Maria Davis-Pierre, LMHC
-
Sabrina Longley, LCSW - Unapologetically Too Much: Finding Your Voice as a Black Women with ADHD
-
Maria Davis-Pierre, LMHC - When ADHD Impacts the Whole Family: Supporting Black Parents, Partners and SIblings
-
Nathaniel L. Huff, Jr. - From School to Service to Civilian Life: Navigating Late-Diagnosed ADHD as a Black Man
-
Dr. Destiny Huff, LPC - When ADHD Lives in the Marriage: Communication, Capacity, and Connection in Neurodivergent Relationships
-
Couples, Family, & Siblings Panel - Chanel N. Grant, Christopher Grant, Amanda Pericles, Sara Beals Sager, and Nathaniel L. Huff, Jr.
Pre-Recorded
-
Cheryl A. Poe, MA, Urb. Edu - When ADHD Becomes a Discipline Problem: Advocating for Black Students Before Punishment Replaces Support
-
Dr. Tricia Diamond, PFMP, CPMAI, PMI-ACP, PMO-CP - The Chatbot Told Him He Was King
-
Brittany Polonio, MA - What my ADHD Brain Wishes You Knew: Helping Parents and Educators Understand Black Teens with ADHD
-
Dr. Chenille Johnson, EdD, NCPT-4 - Beyond the Diagnosis: Understanding ADHD in Black Military-Connected Children and Families
-
Dr. Destiny Huff, LPC - Working While Black, Autistic, and ADHD, Navigating Executive Functioning, Masking and Workplace Expectations
About the Founders
Nate Huff
Co-Founder, The Black ADHD Experience Conference
Dr. Destiny Huff, LPC
Co-Founder, The Black ADHD Experience Conference
Dr. Destiny Huff, LPC is a late-diagnosed Autistic and ADHDer, therapist, non-attorney special education advocate, speaker, author, wife to an ADHDer, and mother raising neurodivergent children. She is the owner and sole advocate of Destiny Huff Consulting, LLC, owner and sole therapist of HRG Counseling & Supervision, LLC, and co-founder of The Black ADHD Experience Conference.
Her work centers neuroaffirming, culturally responsive, and anti-ableist support for neurodivergent individuals and families, with particular attention to the ways race, disability, culture, education, mental health, relationships, and family experiences intersect.
Dr. Huff wanted to create The Black ADHD Experience Conference after repeatedly seeing conversations about ADHD that failed to meaningfully center Black ADHDers. As a late-diagnosed Black neurodivergent woman, clinician, advocate, wife, and parent, she understands that ADHD does not exist separately from race, culture, family, education, mental health, or identity.
She envisioned a space where Black ADHDers would not simply be included in the conversation, they would be the conversation. A space where lived experience and professional expertise could exist together, and where Black children, adults, parents, couples, families, educators, clinicians, and advocates could have conversations that are often missing from traditional ADHD spaces.
Through the conference, Dr. Huff hopes to expand the conversation beyond symptoms, deficits, and behavior and toward identity, access, belonging, advocacy, relationships, mental health, education, family, and the supports Black ADHDers need to thrive without being asked to become less of who they are.
Nate Huff is a late-diagnosed ADHDer, husband to a neurodivergent wife, father raising neurodivergent children, and co-founder of The Black ADHD Experience Conference.
His decision to help create the conference came from both his personal experience with ADHD and his experience navigating ADHD within marriage, parenting, and family life.
After receiving his own diagnosis later in life, Nate recognized the importance of having spaces where Black people can talk openly about ADHD without shame, judgment, or stigma. He also saw how little space is often given to the experiences of Black ADHD men, husbands, fathers, partners, and families.
For Nate, creating this conference alongside his wife was an opportunity to help build the kind of space he believes the Black community needs: one where people can learn about ADHD, hear themselves reflected in other people's experiences, have conversations that may not happen anywhere else, and challenge the stigma that continues to surround ADHD within our communities.
His hope is that Black ADHDers and the people who love them leave the conference feeling seen, understood, supported, and less alone.
Why We Created The Black ADHD Experience Conference
The Black ADHD Experience Conference grew from our own lives.
We are two late-diagnosed ADHD adults navigating marriage, parenting, careers, family, and the process of understanding ourselves through a lens we did not have growing up. We are also raising neurodivergent children and witnessing firsthand how race, disability, education, mental health, relationships, culture, and family expectations shape the ADHD experience.
We knew we wanted to create something different.
There are ADHD conferences. There are Black professional spaces. There are conversations about parenting, education, relationships, and mental health. But there are far fewer spaces intentionally created to explore what happens where Blackness and ADHD meet.
So we created one.
The Black ADHD Experience Conference centers Black ADHDers across the lifespan, not as an afterthought, not as a diversity panel, and not simply as people being talked about, but as the people whose voices, experiences, expertise, families, relationships, challenges, joy, and perspectives shape the conversation.
Our goal is to create space for conversations about education, diagnosis, mental health, marriage, parenting, family dynamics, advocacy, accommodations, culture, stigma, identity, belonging, and everything in between.
Because there is no single Black ADHD experience.
And Black ADHDers deserve spaces where the fullness of those experiences can be seen, heard, understood, and celebrated.
Thank you to our Sponsors!!!
%20(1).png)
Belonging, LLC
.png)
Guided Evolution
Sarah L. Glasco, PhD | Neurodivergence + Menopause ED & Humor
See you next year!
The 2nd Black ADHD Experience Conference will be held October 8-10, 2027!