She's a status quo disruptor, she's an education icon, and she will forever be the moment. Dr. Amber J. Banks, Ph.D. is more than just a university administrator, and former special education student who graduated high school reading on a 6th to 7th grade reading level, she is an EXPERIENCE. For more than 25 years, she has driven impact, innovation, and transformation in dismantling systemic and institutional barriers that marginalize individuals who suffer from dyslexia, learning disabilities, and stigma. Her legacy focuses on issues of oppression, feminism, race, and marginalization. She debunks common invisible learning disabilities (dyslexia, dyscalculia, dysgraphia)Special education myths and the stigma surrounding those who suffer in silence. Her work stretches far beyond the university roles of vice president, dean, director, and professor. She is a community activist that enters into spaces where people have been misunderstood, misguided, and miseducated when others have tried to define, limit or erase them by disrupting processes and systems to rehabilitate educational reforms. Dr. Banks is a literary force with a powerful pen who doesn't just write and speak about emancipating others from broken systems. She is a true liberator who unapologetically challenges assumptions about stereotypes, unconscious bias, special education, the mental health effects and advice for navigating and restructuring systems to live authentically. Read more about this authorRead less about this author