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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.
Who This Conference Is For
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Black ADHDers
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Parents/caregivers/families
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Educators and school staff
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Mental health and healthcare professionals
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Advocates
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Community organizations
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People who want to better support Black ADHDers
What You'll Learn
Across three conference tracks, Education, Mental Health, and Couples, Parenting & Family, attendees will explore how ADHD can show up across the lifespan and in different settings.
You’ll learn more about:
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ADHD identification, diagnosis, misdiagnosis, masking, burnout, and emotional well-being
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IEPs, 504 Plans, accommodations, school discipline, advocacy, and support for Black ADHD learners
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Parenting, caregiving, communication, relationships, family roles, and intergenerational experiences
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Culturally responsive and neuroaffirming approaches that move beyond compliance and deficit-based thinking
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Practical strategies, resources, and advocacy tools that can be used at home, in schools, in therapeutic settings, and throughout the community
Attendees will leave with a deeper understanding of Black ADHD experiences, practical tools for providing more affirming support, and stronger connections to a community committed to ensuring Black ADHDers are seen, heard, supported, and valued.
Meet Your 2026 Speakers
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Dr. Destiny Huff, LPC
Therapist, Non-Attorney Special Education Advocate, and Co-Founder of the Black ADHD Experience Conference
When ADHD Lives in the Marriage: Communication, Capacity, and Connection in Neurodivergent Relationships
LIVE
Nathaniel L. Huff, Jr.
Service Now Developer and Co-Founder of the Black ADHD Experience Conference
From School to Service to Civilian Life: Navigating Late-Diagnosed ADHD as a Black Man
LIVE
Maria Davis-Pierre, LMHC
CEO of Autism in Black® Inc
When ADHD Impacts the Whole Family: Supporting Black Parents, Partners, and Siblings
LIVE
Cheryl A. Poe, M.A. Urb. Edu.
Executive Director Advocating 4 Kids Inc Advocating/Speaker. Trainer
When ADHD Becomes a Discipline Problem: Advocating for Black Students Before Punishment Replaces Support
PRE-RECORDED
Dr. Barry Pierre
Physician, Co-Founder Autism in Black
ADHD Beyond the Classroom: What Black Families Need to Know About Health, Treatment, and the Healthcare System
LIVE
Dr. Marshia Allen, LPC-S
Owner NeuroSports Counseling
Game On, Mind On: ADHD and Mental Wellness in Black Student-Athletes
PRE-RECORDED
Dr. Chenille Johnson, EdD, NCPT-4
Research Analyst
Beyond the Diagnosis: Understanding ADHD in Black Military-Connected Children and Families
PRE-RECORDED
Dr. Candace Holmes
Neurofeedback Therapy Specialist, Author, Speaker, Chiropractor
Beyond Behavior: Rethinking How We See ADHD in Black Children
LIVE
Sabrina Longley, LCSW
Therapist, Trainer, Consultant
Unapologetically Too Much: Finding Your Voice as a Black Woman with ADHD
LIVE
Keisha Berry, MS, CCC-SLP
Founding Speech Language Pathologist
Ava Berry
Homeschool Student
A Mother’s Expertise, A Daughter’s Voice: Understanding ADHD Together
LIVE
Jasmine Maddox
Title/Role
Cheetah Sista: Culture, Identity, and the Black ADHD Teacher Experience
PRE-RECORDED
Stacy Badon
Autism Education Specialist
Room to Be a Nerd: Rethinking What We Expect From Black Boys
LIVE
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Jaitesha Hanson, LMHC
Neurodiversity Specialist & Educator
When Survival Looks Like Compliance Understanding Black ADHD, Masking, and Code-Switching Through a Pattern Lens
LIVE
Dr. Carliss Miller
Founder & Principal Advisor/Professor
Beyond Orientation: What Black ADHD Students Need to Know Before the First Day of College
LIVE
Brittany Polonio, MA
Special Education Teacher
What My ADHD Brain Wishes You Knew: Helping Parents and Educators Understand Black Teens with ADHD
PRE-RECORDED
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Dr. Tricia Diamond
Director/Founder
The Chatbot Told Him He Was a King: AI, Grandiosity, and Neurodivergent Vulnerability
PRE-RECORDED
Meet Your 2026 Panelists
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Taniah Johnson, AMFT, PPS, CWA
Associate Marriage & Family Therapist/ School-based and Perinatal trained
Stacy Badon
Autism Education Specialist
Brittany Polonio, MA
Special Education Teacher
Shontaye Glover, MS CCC-SLP
Founder HOS Collective, Speech Pathologist
Dr. Carliss Miller
Founder & Principal Advisor/Professor
Education Panel
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Veronica Sweeney-Bird
ADHD & Neurodivergent Affirming Coach
Kathleen Johnson, B.A., DISM
CEO/Founder Kreativ Culture Strategies
Toni Solaru, OTD, OTR/L, QMHP
Functional Cognition Specialist
Maria Davis-Pierre, LMHC
CEO of Autism in Black® Inc
Sarah Beals Sager, MA, MLIS
Writer/Black ADHDer
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Chanel N. Grant, MBA, M.Ed
Advocate, Author, SPED Specialist
Christopher Hickman, Registered Mental Health Intern, RMHI
Mental Health Therapist
Amanda Pericles, MS, CCC-SLP, CBS
Speech-Language Pathologist
Nathaniel L. Huff, Jr.
Service Now Developer
Couples, Families & Siblings Panels
Mental Health Panel
Conference Schedule
Day 1
11:00 AM - 4:35 PM ET
11:00–11:30 — Opening Talk & Why The Black ADHD Experience Conference Matters
Dr. Destiny Huff, LPC
11:30–12:20 — Stacy Badon
Room to Be a Nerd: Rethinking What We Expect From Black Boys
12:20–1:10 — Dr. Carliss Miller
Beyond Orientation: What Black ADHD Students Need to Know Before the First Day of College
1:10–1:25 — Break
1:25–2:55 — Education Panel
90 minutes
2:55–3:05 — Break
3:05–3:55 — Jaitesha Hanson
When Survival Looks Like Compliance: Understanding Black ADHD, Masking, and Code-Switching Through a Pattern Lens
3:55-4:45 — Dr. Candace Holmes
Beyond Behavior: Rethinking How We See ADHD in Black Children
4:45–4:50 — Day 1 Wrap-Up
Day 2
11:00 AM - 4:25 PM ET
11:00–11:50 — Keisha & Ava Berry
A Mother’s Expertise, A Daughter’s Voice: Understanding ADHD Together
11:50–12:40 — Dr. Berry Pierre
ADHD Beyond the Classroom: What Black Families Need to Know About Health, Treatment, and the Healthcare System
12:40–12:55 — Break
12:55–2:25 — Mental Health Panel
90 minutes
2:25–2:35 — Break
2:35–3:25 — Sabrina Longley
Unapologetically Too Much: Finding Your Voice as a Black Woman with ADHD
3:25–4:15 — Maria Davis-Pierre, LMHC
When ADHD Impacts the Whole Family: Supporting Black Parents, Partners, and Siblings
4:15–4:25 — Day 2 Wrap-Up
Day 3
11:00 AM - 2:45 PM ET
11:00–11:50 — Nathaniel L. Huff, Jr.
From School to Service to Civilian Life: Navigating Late-Diagnosed ADHD as a Black Man
11:50–12:00 — Break
12:00–12:50 — Dr. Destiny Huff, LPC
When ADHD Lives in the Marriage: Communication, Capacity, and Connection in Neurodivergent Relationships
12:50–1:00 — Break
1:00–2:30 — Couples, Family & Siblings Panel - 90 minutes
2:30–3:00 — Conference Closing
Dr. Destiny Huff, LPC
Choose Your Conference Experience
Live Pass All Access
Live conference
Live Q&A
Three live panels
Pre-recorded sessions
Live session recordings
Panel recordings
Speaker resources
Accessibility & Conference Experience
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Virtual participation
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Captions
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Scheduled breaks
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Neuroaffirming environment
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Replay flexibility for All Access
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Any other accessibility supports you confirm
Sponsor & Community Partner Opportunities
The Black ADHD Experience Conference is a three-day virtual conference centering Black ADHD voices, lived experiences, families, educators, clinicians, advocates, and community members across mental health, education, relationships, parenting, family life, and everyday experiences.
Taking place October 2–4, 2026, the inaugural conference will bring together attendees for culturally responsive, neuroaffirming, and anti-ableist conversations that are too often missing from traditional ADHD spaces.
Sponsorship helps us expand access, support conference accessibility, elevate Black ADHD voices, and connect attendees with organizations and businesses committed to meaningful, culturally responsive support.
Sponsorship Opportunities
Organizations can support the conference through several sponsorship levels:
Partnership
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Access Sponsorship — Flexible Contribution
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Approved In-Kind Sponsorships
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Community Sponsor — $250
Sponsorship
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Supporting Sponsor — $500
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Advocacy Sponsor — $750
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Presenting Sponsor — $1,500
Benefits vary by level and may include website recognition, digital conference program placement, social media promotion, complimentary registrations, All Access Passes, attendee resource placement, digital advertisements, conference acknowledgments, and additional visibility opportunities.
Interested in Becoming a Sponsor?
We would love to explore how your organization can support the inaugural Black ADHD Experience Conference.
For sponsorship information click the button. For questions email: admin@destinyhuffconsulting.com
Sponsorship deadline: September 18, 2026
Together, we can help create a conference where Black ADHD experiences are centered, affirmed, and supported.
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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.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is this conference only for Black attendees?
No. The Black ADHD Experience Conference centers the experiences, perspectives, and needs of Black ADHDers, but attendees of all racial and cultural backgrounds are welcome to attend, learn, and engage.
Do I need an ADHD diagnosis to attend?
No. A formal ADHD diagnosis is not required to attend the conference.
Is the conference completely virtual?
Yes. The Black ADHD Experience Conference is a fully virtual event taking place October 2–4, 2026. Additional access information will be provided to registered attendees before the conference.
What time zone is the schedule listed in?
All conference times are listed in Eastern Time (ET).
Are recordings included with the Live Pass?
No. The Live Conference Pass provides access to the live conference experience only.
To access recordings of live sessions, panel discussions, and the eight pre-recorded presentations, you must purchase an All Access Pass.
What does the All Access Pass include?
Complete All Access Pass details are listed in the ticket section above. The All Access Pass includes the live conference experience plus access to conference recordings, pre-recorded presentations, and available speaker resources.
Can I upgrade from Live to All Access?
Yes. If you purchase a Live Conference Pass and later decide you would like access to the conference recordings and pre-recorded sessions, you can upgrade to an All Access Pass for $40.
To request an upgrade, email admin@destinyhuffconsulting.com using the name and email address associated with your registration. You will receive instructions for paying the upgrade difference and updating your registration.
Upgrades will be available through the conclusion of the conference on October 4, 2026.
How long will recordings be available?
All Access Pass purchasers will have access to conference recordings for 1 year following the conference. Additional instructions for accessing the recordings will be provided to All Access attendees.
Are CE credits available?
No. CE credits are not available for the 2026 conference. We hope to offer continuing education opportunities at future Black ADHD Experience Conferences.
What happens if I cannot attend live?
If you are unable to attend live, we recommend purchasing an All Access Pass, which provides access to conference recordings and pre-recorded sessions.
You may purchase or upgrade to an All Access Pass through the conclusion of the conference on October 4, 2026.
After the conference concludes, a separate Conference Replay option will be available for those who did not purchase All Access.
Are tickets refundable/transferrable?
No. Conference tickets are non-refundable and non-transferable. Please review your ticket selection carefully before completing your purchase.
Thank you to our Access & In-Kind Sponsors!!!
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