Dr. Tanisha Clarke directs the Advancing Cultural and Linguistic Competence, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: New York Office for People With Developmental Disabilities (OPWDD) - Georgetown University National Center for Cultural Competence (NCCC) Partnership for Systems Change project. She oversees this three-year complex and multi-faceted statewide project designed to advance policies and practices of cultural and linguistic competence, diversity, equity, and inclusion in all components of the intellectual and developmental disability system of New York State. She has over 20 years of progressive professional experience managing programs and capacity-building initiatives at state and national levels. Tanisha most recently served as the Director of Research and Medical Programs at the Tourette Association of America. Before that, she was the Principal Investigator and Program Director of AUCD's National Center on Disability in Public Health. She managed national capacity-building initiatives focused on addressing health outcomes, reducing disparities, and influencing sustainable inclusion of people with disabilities in education, professional training, services, programs, resources, and health promotion and care. Tanisha's professional experience also includes over ten years in leadership at the Florida Center for Inclusive Communities, a University Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities at the University of South Florida.