Kristin Jacobson, Co-Founder

Before co-founding Autism Deserves Equal Coverage, Kristin Jacobson co-founded the Bay Area Autism Advocacy Group to organize parents to advocate for legislative reform for autism. The group became the advocacy group for Autism Speaks and Kristin now serves as statewide Advocacy Chair for Autism Speaks. She is leading the effort to get autism insurance reform passed in California. She serves on the Steering Committee of the Alliance of California Autism Organizations, representing more than 40 autism organizations around the state, is the Council Member on the Statewide Coordinating Council of the Senate Select Committee on Autism and Related Disorders, Chair of the Bay Area Autism Regional Task-force (BAART) (Co-chair of Insurance Sub-group) and served on the Autism Advisory Workgroup fr the Department of Managed Health Care (DMHC). Kristin has testified numerous times before the California Blue Ribbon Commission on Autism and at California legislative panels and hearings.

Kristin has a Masters in Business Administration from Stanford and has spent her career in healthcare marketing, with a specialty in health insurance reimbursement. Kristin recently co-founded the ASD insurance help yahoo group to assist parents with insurance issues