Brian Boyd is a professor and director of the Juniper Gardens Children’s Project at the University of Kansas. As director of a community-based, applied research center focused on child development, he has been heavily engaged in research that involves the most vulnerable and often marginalized populations. A special educator by training, much of his research has involved developing and evaluating evidence-based practices within school-based contexts. His more recent work has focused on how issues of implicit bias and race affect the outcomes of children with and without autism.