Thank You Newsletter Contributors of 2025!

As the OOTA Newsletter Committee reflects on the 2025 newsletter year, the committee extends heartfelt thanks to the many contributors who generously shared their time, insight, and passion for the profession. The voices of practitioners, students, educators, and leaders from across Ohio helped bring each issue to life and created a space where our occupational therapy community can stay informed, encouraged, and connected.

This newsletter exists because of our OT community. Throughout the year, members contributed advocacy updates, clinical experiences, evidence-based practice insights, professional reflections, and highlights of the incredible work happening across our OT community. These contributions strengthen our profession and connect us across practice settings.

Looking ahead, the Newsletter Committee is excited to continue growing this platform and encourages OOTA members to contribute their ideas and experiences in future issues, whether through writing, collaborating on content, helping with editing, or joining the Newsletter Committee.

We celebrate the contributors listed below whose voices helped shape Volume I of the OOTA Newsletter.

 

Volume I Contributors

Alyssa DeCarlo, MS, OTR/L, MSCS, CSRS, LSVT
Ariel Miller, OTD, OTR/L
Bonnie Boenig, MEd, OT/L, C/NDT
Christie Tuttle, MS, COTA/L, ROH
Christina Duncan, MS, OTR/L, CDRS
Danielle Duguid, MOT, OTR/L
Em Kreimer, OT/S
Emmalee McElveen, OTD, OTR/L
Erika Eustaquio, OTD, OTR/L
Heather Swartz, DOR, COTA/L
Kara Brogan, OTR/L
Karla D. Reese, DHSc, OTR/L
Katelyn Stevens Merzke, COTA/L
Kati Garibian, OTD, OTR/L
Kelly Neal, OTD, OTR/L, BCPR, C/NDT, CBIS
Kristina Lustri, MOT, OTR/L
Melanie Grady, OTD, OTR/L
Melissa Bergacs, MS, OTR/L, CGCP
Natalie Chang Wright, MBA-HCM, COTA/L, ROH
Nathan Grizenko, OTD, OTR/L
Rebekah “Bekah” Bourgeois, OTD, MOT, OTR/L
Shanese L. Higgins, DHSc, OTR/L, FAOTA, BCMH
Shelley Coleman Casto, MS, OTR/L, BCP, FAOTA, CPST
Teri LaGuardia, OTD, MOT, OTR/L
Tracy Deutch, OTR/L