Meet the Rogue Team

or Sarah Elisabeth on Facebook is one of the original owners of Rogue who received her BCBA certification in May 2016 on her second try. She is currently working on her doctorate in ABA and is a co-instructor in the Arizona State University online graduate program for ABA. She lives in New Jersey with her husband and two Lab puppies, Hank and Bella. She works in a public school as a self-contained Behavior Disorder Teacher and does ABA therapy and consulting in the home through an agency. Her groups and 1:1 tutoring are interactive, engaging and upbeat. She leads the Beyond the Basics courses.

is one of the original owners of Rogue and passed her exam in May, 2016. She is a mom of two girls, one is 5 and the other is 1 year old. She studied for the boards while she was on maternity leave with her youngest. Currently, Lindsey works in a large school district in Arkansas as the Elementary Behavior Specialist and District BCBA. Lindsey understands what it’s like to have many distractions and other priorities while studying. She is never too busy to give pep talks to others that are in a similar situation as she was. Lindsey is the voice behind all of our amazing Instagram posts!

passed her exam in November 2016. She lives and breaths ABA and will challenge you to push yourself beyond your potential in every zoom and discussion you have. Through studying for the exam herself she found a love and passion for teaching others, which lead her here to Rogue. She is also a co-instructor in the Arizona State University online graduate program for Applied Behavior Analysis. She lives in Tennessee with her husband and three beautiful children. She is the lead 6 week course instructor.

Josh is currently a faculty member of the SIU behavior analysis program in Carbondale, Illinois. After earning is PhD at the University of Nevada, Reno, he joined the faculty at Florida Institute of Technology and built the Hybrid Master of Arts in Professional Behavior Analysis that he chaired until the spring, 2017. While he loves teaching graduate students, he also believes it is important to keep a foot in practice as this experience helps guide his research and instruction. As such, he founded the Lodestone Academy in Orlando which serves children with behavioral disorders across two campuses. Additionally, he has a clinical team providing services to children and adults across multiple states. He has consulted with state facilities under federal DOJ review and provided international consultation on behavioral programs, business development and practicum experience. Most recently, he has focused his behavior towards entrepreneurship, business mentoring, OBM, and instructional design. Josh joined the Rogue ABA team providing guidance on instructional design and business management. You can find him frequenting Escape rooms, jet setting between Florida and Illinois (among other various states and countries), and spending time with his fiancée (also a behavior scientist). He also loves chatting in Facebook groups where he is able to disseminate science to a wide range of practitioners.

Hannah earned her master’s in Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) in December 2016 and became a Board Certified Behavior Analyst in June 2017. She has been working with children and young adults with developmental disabilities since 2006 and currently works in Colorado providing in-home therapy to individuals diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). She conducts free and Special Topic zooms, offers 1 on 1 tutoring, and is a course instructor for Tackle the Task List. Hannah has a passion to see socially significant changes in behavior for those with developmental needs, and thus has a passion to see others properly equipped in ABA to serve their clients. She understands that perseverance is an important virtue in this field, and thus offers the quote by B.F. Skinner: “A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.” Therefore, whether in your studies or with a client, she always urges you to keep trying!

Michael Jones earned his BCBA in May of 2016 after studying under Dr. Richard Malott at Western Michigan University, where he helped teach and design multiple behavioral courses. He’s since moved to the San Francisco Bay Area where he is currently working as a BCBA with a primarily in-home treatment company. He has experience with kiddos aged 2 ½ to 18 years, using DTT and more naturalistic methods, and working in residential, out-patient, school, and home settings. When not practicing or studying Behavior Analysis, Michael enjoys playing/writing music, traveling and meeting people, and most of all, memorizing hip-hop lyrics. Michael will be hosting free zooms on the private Facebook page as well as tutoring!

After completing my coursework through Florida Institute of Technology in Applied Behavior Analysis I was 7 months pregnant, and decided to wait to take my exam. I found myself “ready” to start studying in between tending to my two daughters 3 years old and 3 months old at the time, juggling my husbands nighttime work schedule, and a part-time teaching job. The round the clock studying and study group coordinating paid off with passing on my second attempt in August 2017. I look forward to helping encourage other multiple test takers by assisting in the Beyond the Basics course.

Jenny came to ABA through years of teaching kiddos on the autism spectrum and wanting the best, research-based interventions for her students academically and behaviorally. Jenny’s experience is primarily with 3-12 year old kiddos in the public school setting. She passed her BCBA exam in October 2017. Jenny and her husband, Dallas, live in Arkansas and are anxiously awaiting the arrival of their first child in July 2018. When not working, Jenny enjoys watching sports (I’m “retired” from playing…ha!), making memes, and hanging out with family and friends.

Manish is currently a doctoral student at SIU in the behavior analysis program in Carbondale, Illinois. After earning his MS in Behavior Analysis at Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, he worked as a Field Consultant at Partner’s in Behavioral Milestones where he was the primary consultant for three group homes, working with clients who had multiple diagnosis of developmental, congenital and clinical disorders. While he likes working in mental health, he also believes that the primary source for understanding behavior analysis lies in understanding the environment within which a behavior has its functions. As such, he moved back to India after a year in the mental health field and began working with a theater company where he used behavior analytic principles and systems analysis to teach skills development, shaping, and used sports to build momentum and transfer instructional control. Additionally, he attempted to start his own company called the Bridge and, in the process, consulted on projects by doing behavioral systems analysis for entrepreneurs and behavior-based safety for a construction company. Most recently, he has focused his priorities towards a PhD, supervising students for their BCBA, and professional and academic skills development (e.g., teaching, supervising, research, grant writing). His future objectives are to put together a team of individuals with diverse backgrounds, focused on conducting interdisciplinary research which contributes towards building knowledge with innovation, and establish a self-sustaining organization to disseminate behavior analysis as a science and practice.

Brian Katz passed the BCBA exam in November, 2015. He is also a licensed special education teacher and took his BCBA coursework through Florida Institute of Technology. His independent fieldwork took place in Toronto, Ontario at two private clinics and focused on early intensive behavioral intervention for young children with autism. He is the father of two kids, ages 2 ½ years old and six months. Brian currently works for a public school district in the suburbs of Chicago, serving students kindergarten through eighth grade with multiple needs. It has been Brian‘s career mission to bring applied behavior analysis into public education, and to help other educators use our science to benefit every student. Some of Brian‘s personal interests in the field of Applied Behavior Analysis include verbal behavior and ABA in special education including the use precision teaching, direct instruction, and positive behavior supports.