Redefining the Narrative: The Black ADHD Experience Unfiltered is a candid and transformative webinar that centers the lived experiences of Black individuals with ADHD while critically examining how bias and misconceptions shape diagnosis, treatment, and outcomes. This session challenges long-standing stereotypes and clinical blind spots that often lead to misdiagnosis, underdiagnosis, or punitive responses rather than care.
Learning Objectives:
- Identify and critically examine common biases and misconceptions that affect the diagnosis and treatment of ADHD in Black individuals
- Analyze how race, identity, and systemic factors intersect with clinical practice to influence ADHD assessment, care pathways, and patient outcomes
- Apply principles of truth-telling and narrative reframing to promote more accessible systems of care and enhance self-understanding for Black individuals with ADHD
When: Wednesday, February 11th, 2026 at 7:30 pm ET
Where: From the comfort of your own home
Who: Dr. Larry Jones, Teresa Taylor, Dr. Mary Jones
Biography
Larry A. Jones, MD, MBA, AACC
Pediatrician | ADHD & Life Coach | Author | Speaker
Known as Dr. Larry, Dr. Larry A. Jones is an empathetic and results-driven coach who partners with parents, children, adolescents, and adults to help them move from overwhelm to clarity and confidence. He is deeply committed to helping individuals recognize, value, and activate strengths that have too often gone unseen or uncelebrated.
Drawing on both professional expertise and lived experience, Dr. Jones works alongside individuals with ADHD and other neurodiversities to reduce stigma and build stability. Turning ADHD from Stigma to Stability is the guiding mission of TASTE of Success Coaching. What sets Dr. Jones apart is not only his clinical knowledge, but his transparency. He openly shares his own journey with ADHD, imposter syndrome, and social anxiety—demonstrating that vulnerability is not a liability, but a powerful bridge to growth, connection, and self-trust. His coaching focuses on transforming stress into momentum and helping clients live with greater purpose, peace, and confidence.
Dr. Jones is also deeply engaged in supporting families, students, and professionals as they navigate the evolving landscape of education—particularly recent changes within the U.S. Department of Education. As a lifelong child advocate, he has consistently worked to strengthen communication and collaboration between parents, educators, and institutions to improve outcomes for children and families.
This passion led to the co-authoring of Falling Through the Ceiling: Our ADHD Family Memoir with his wife, Audrey R. Jones. The memoir offers an honest, compassionate, and often humorous account of raising three sons with ADHD, providing encouragement and practical insight for parents and educators alike. Together, they are currently developing an accompanying workbook designed as an experiential learning tool, offering real-life examples and guided reflection to help families and individuals better understand the do’s and don’ts of navigating ADHD across the lifespan.
In recognition of his impact, Dr. Jones received the Lifetime Achievement Award from CHADD (Children and Adults with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder) in 2022 for his leadership in advancing ADHD awareness, particularly within minority communities. He has served in multiple administrative and advocacy roles, addressing systemic inequities and challenging harmful stereotypes. As Dr. Jones notes, “Stereotypes about ADHD have been especially damaging for children of color, often leading to mislabeling and inappropriate treatment—making informed, vigilant advocacy essential.”
Dr. Jones’s commitment to education and service extends globally. In 2024, he served as a guest lecturer at the National Children’s Hospital in Hanoi, Vietnam, delivering 14 lectures to pediatric residents and nurses. These sessions were sponsored by Medrix, a health-education NGO dedicated to expanding clinical training and mental-health awareness.
As a sought-after corporate speaker, Dr. Jones was invited to present at Ford Motor Company’s Neurodiversity Day 2025 in Dearborn, Michigan, where he spoke on Improving Self-Care by Managing Stress and Anxiety—helping professionals cultivate resilience, self-awareness, and sustainable performance.
Dr. Jones welcomes opportunities to collaborate, coach, and speak with individuals and organizations committed to growth, inclusion, and meaningful change.
Find Larry A. Jones’s Website Here: enabletables.com
Teresa Taylor
Teresa Taylor is a Certified Productivity Coach who has helped
professionals and entrepreneurs who struggle with their tasks and time for over a decade. Her passion is customizing systems to help her clients get out of overwhelm and start taking focused action that lets them easily achieve goals, feel smart again and enjoy the good life they work so hard to build.
Teresa’s specialty is coaching Black Women with ADHD in STEM, which ties directly back to her corporate career in Engineering and Business.
After recognizing the gaps to Black Women accessing culturally competent support, Teresa set out to create spaces to elevate the community. She created and began hosting the Black Women ADHD Summit in 2022. She also hosts virtual events to engage Black Women with ADHD in building the perspectives and strategies needed to help them live more fully.
Teresa is also a Coach Trainer teaching Strengths-Based Coaching and assisting with Life and ADHD courses with Coach Approach Training Institute.
Find Teresa Taylor’s Website Here: atayloredspace.com
Dr. Mary Jones
Dr. Mary Holden Jones, MD, is a board-certified pediatrician, autism specialist, and trained life and leadership coach. As an autism and ADHD clinician—and as the mother of a child on the autism spectrum and children with ADHD—she brings deep lived experience, empathy, and clinical expertise to her work. Her dual perspective as both a physician and a parent informs her uniquely compassionate, strengths-based approach to neurodevelopmental care. She is the founder and owner of Bright Starts Pediatrics, where she provides comprehensive autism and ADHD evaluations, developmental assessments, and neurodiversity-affirming coaching for children, teens, adults, and families. Dr. Jones is deeply committed to advocacy, early identification, health equity, and empowering neurodivergent individuals to thrive with clarity, confidence, and dignity.
Find Mary Jones’s Website Here: brightstartshealth.com
Moderator: Evelyn Green, MS.Ed.
Evelyn Polk Green, MSEd, is a past president of both ADDA, the Attention Deficit Disorder Association and CHADD (Children and Adults with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder). She is an adult with ADHD and the mother of two adult sons, Perry and Robert, both of whom also have ADHD. Evelyn attended Duke University where her ADHD first manifested itself intensely enough to disrupt her education. She later received bachelor’s and master’s degrees from National Louis University and a second master’s degree from Northern Illinois University. She has been active in child and adult mental advocacy for almost 30 years, with an emphasis on bringing ADHD awareness to marginalized and underserved communities. Evelyn has served as a leader representing the family and educator voice in the ADHD and mental health communities in many capacities over the last 30 years, including as a member of the Network on Children’s Mental Health Services funded by the MacArthur Foundation, as well as the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry’s (AACAP) Research Forum. She has served as spokesperson on behalf of families dealing with the challenges of ADHD for the National Institutes of Mental Health, the Surgeon General of the United States and most recently, the National Academy of Science Engineering and Medicine’s Workshop on ADHD Drug Development. She is the recipient of several honors for her volunteer work in mental health and education, including the Beacon College Achieving Lifetime Vision and Excellence (ALiVE) Award for her advocacy work on behalf of children and adults with learning differences and ADHD.
Evelyn is currently serving as a member of the ADHD Expert Consortium, a group dedicated to improving diagnosis, treatment and outcomes for individuals with ADHD. In addition to representing the African American and/or family perspective of ADHD, Evelyn has been a guest on podcasts such “Life with Lost Keys” by Rene Brooks, creator of Black Girl Lost Keys and Samantha Hiew’s Utopia Podcast originating in the UK. She has appeared in numerous articles and news programs discussing ADHD and mental health, including the CBS Evening News and the New York Times. Additionally, Evelyn has written articles for ADDitude Magazine and served as an expert speaker for ADDitude webinars. She has also presented content for both live and recorded seminars and presentations to families, educators and mental health professionals.
Evelyn has been an educator in the Chicago Public Schools for over 35 years, working as a teacher assistant, classroom teacher, resource specialist, coach, trainer and administrator. She currently works as an administrator, planning professional development programs for early childhood special education professionals and families.
