Our Team

Allegra Thomas joined the foundation in 2016 as a member of the SFARI team. She is a graduate of the University of California, Santa Cruz, where she earned a B.A. in psychology. Prior to joining the foundation, Thomas worked as a legal…

As project manager for Simons Searchlight, Jennifer Tjernagel is responsible for managing study progress from initiation through data analysis. Previously, she was project manager for the Simons Simplex Collection, working through the University of Michigan.

Natalia Volfovsky joined the foundation in 2013 to oversee analytics support of the data initiatives within the foundation. She leads a team of data analysts and bioinformatic engineers that operates SFARI Base, supports SFARI Gene and scientific administration databases and implements computational…

Casey White-Lehman supervises several research cohorts, including some that are registered with the Interactive Autism Network (IAN) and will be invited to join SPARK. As the SPARK cohort grows, White-Lehman will work with researchers who want to contact participants about additional research…