Emma (She/her/hers) is a Canadian linguist hailing from Perth Ontario. Her research centres around the discursive community contruction of identity in digital spaces. Her recent work has focussed on how the neurodiversity movement and queer activism play into the way that self-diagnosed autists use the affordances of digital communication to construct their identity for audiences online. With an interdisciplinary background in the areas of Psychology, Communication disorders, Deaf studies, ASL, Autism studies, and Queer theory, Emma seeks to engage in research that has positive social impacts for the communities that are implicated within these areas of study and to examine the language practices that underly the discourse situated within these communities.