Julia Bascom

Julia Bascom is an American autism rights activist. She is the current Deputy Executive Director of the Autistic Self-Advocacy Network (ASAN) and will be replacing Ari Ne'eman as president of ASAN in 2017.

Bascom has previously worked on the New Hampshire State Developmental Disabilities Council, and is currently on the Disability Equality Index advisory board committee. She also serves on the boards of Advance CLASS, Inc. and the Centene National Advisory Council on Disability. She is currently the Deputy Executive Director of the Autistic Self-Advocacy Network (ASAN) and will be replacing Ari Ne'eman as president of ASAN in 2017.

Loud Hands Project

Bascom organized and founded the Loud Hands project. Loud Hands was designed to be a "transmedia project", that is, one that uses "multiple forms of content--written words, videos, visual art, the internet, and more". The project was launched in December 2011 as crowdfunding campaign to create an anthology of essays written by autistic people.

The resulting anthology, Loud Hands: Autistic People, Speaking, was described as "groundbreaking" in Steve Silberman's Neurotribes.