Megan Kirshbaum, Ph.D., is the founder and Executive Director of Through the Looking Glass and was the Principal Investigator of its National Center for Parents with Disabilities and their Families from 1993-2017. Her work as an infant/parent and family therapist in the disability community and the independent living community since 1974 inspired her to start TLG in 1982. She was the 1996 Betts Award Laureate for “innovative dedication to improving quality of life for people who live with disabilities worldwide” and recipient of the first North American Tymchuk award for “exemplary contributions to the field of parenting by persons with intellectual disabilities.” As a Mid-Career Fellow in ZERO TO THREE she focused on critiquing evaluations of parents with cognitive disabilities in child protective services systems in the U.S. She has served as an expert witness regarding custody issues of parents with disabilities in ten states and, as a result, developed National Center research analyzing the appropriateness of custody evaluations. She provided technical assistance and training to the developers of the ground-breaking Idaho legislation regarding parents with disabilities. She conducted training regarding parents with disabilities to statewide child welfare systems in Idaho, Kansas and Washington, statewide providers from multiple systems in Oklahoma, and county child welfare systems in Oregon, Washington and California. She had a substantive role in advocating for, guiding and writing the Rocking the Cradle report, has numerous publications and media coverage. Her more than 200 presentations regarding children and parents with disabilities and their families have included NIH, NCD, APA, Department of Defense, the United Nations, and three regions of Japan. Her husband had M.S., which they dealt with together from 1960, and they have two adult children, one of whom has a medical disability. She has in recent years acquired a disability herself.