Built by the parents who needed it first
Every child with a disability deserves the support to thrive, from diagnosis through their entire life. That means giving their parents every advantage available. That is our singular goal.
The job nobody trains you for.
You did not sign up to become your child’s case manager, medical historian, and legal researcher. Nobody would expect you to do one of those jobs professionally without training and years of experience. Yet you are expected to do all of them at once, starting the day you got the diagnosis.
Meanwhile the systems where you have to advocate, schools, insurers, agencies, have modernized. They invested in compliance, documentation, and covering themselves. The parts that actually serve your child took a back seat.
That is not an accident. Every one of these systems is audited for spending too much. None of them is audited for delivering too little. When the only mistake that carries a consequence is saying yes, no becomes the safe answer.
So you face all of it with nothing in your corner. One person, at a table, across from an institution that does this every day and holds all the information.
That is what we change. Better information, better tools, a partner who has done this before. We are not going to fix these systems overnight. But every family who walks in prepared is one more crack in a system built on the assumption that you would not know what to ask for.
What your child needs is knowable. It is just not reachable.
The services exist. The benefits exist. The strategy that gets a school to say yes exists. This is not a mystery with no answer. It is an answer locked in a thousand places at once: in one provider’s head, in another family’s experience, in a policy document no parent was ever meant to read.
The knowledge that would help your family has always been there. It has just been divided. Our job is to make it undivided.
Families do not fall behind because they did not try hard enough. They fall behind because nobody handed them the information.
So we are building the map: every support and service a child with disabilities can access, how to get it, and what to do when the answer comes back no. Not anecdotes. Evidence, so that what one family proves possible becomes what every family can expect.
Technology is already in the room. The only question is whose side it is on.
We are all being told daily that AI is spiraling past anyone’s control. Those concerns deserve serious attention. But we are parents first, and that reframes the question.
The same technology making alarming headlines is already deployed inside the systems your family depends on. Schools use it to generate paper compliance with IEPs. Insurers use it to deny claims faster than any human could.
We are here to make sure it is on your side instead. Every tool we build points one direction: finding the gap between what your child is receiving and what your child should be receiving, and putting what you need to close it in your hands.
You are trusting us with your child’s information.
Undivided meets the HIPAA standards set by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, so your family’s medical information is protected to the same standard required of healthcare providers.
Your documents are never used to train external AI models. You control what is shared and with whom. Always.
Meet a Navigator
Undivided Navigators bring their own personal experience and the experience of working with hundreds of families to connect parents with the expertise and resources they need to meet their goals.
Hi, I’m Michelle Loston!
I am a mom to a 20-year-old daughter in college, and I also have a son who is a sophomore in high school. He has 1P36 chromosome deletion syndrome, autism, intellectual disability, congestive heart failure, and other medical complexities. You can always find him with a smile on his face while watching the Twilight series or playing his musical instruments.
What my experience as a Navigator has taught me:
There is no such thing as a perfect parent — only parents who are willing to do whatever it takes to raise, provide for, protect, and love their children. Approach parenting with grace and have patience with yourself, as there is no manual for parenting.
My favorite self-care activities:
Living in the Great Northwest, I have grown to love the beautiful outdoors. I enjoy hiking, running, and spending time writing poetry.
I have a hard time describing what a gift this actually is. This has been a solo excursion for me for so long, as it is for so many of us, that I didn’t even realize what having some help would feel like! Just to have a network of people, let alone the help that a Navigator can provide, is an incredible opportunity.”
– Undivided client
Undivided Team
Like you, most of us started with far more questions than answers. Parents of children with disabilities, advocates, researchers, and builders, working on the thing we needed ourselves.
Lead Mobile Developer
Father of three and seasoned veteran of many IEP and placement meetings. Excited to be building the tools he wishes he’d had.
Content Writer and Editor
Former therapist passionate about the intersection of storytelling and the human psyche. Disability ally. Loves to read, especially fairy tales.
Research Lead
Researcher who is thrilled to share information as a means of empowerment.
Operations Analyst, Junior Chief of Staff
Uses technical skills and passion to create meaningful solutions for social problems.
Senior Navigator
Parent of two kids with autism and lucky to be forever connected to this community. Loves spending time with friends, laughing, eating, and talking (for hours!)
Content Editor
Cartoonist, writer, and editor married to a teacher at a school for kids with autism.
Connor Gosa
Video Editor
Outdoor enthusiast, adventure junkie, and proud nerd. A digital storyteller focused on education, exposure, and connection across all walks of life.
Senior Product Manager
Fierce proponent of diverse teams who build user-centric technology to tackle real-life problems. Disability ally and avid hiker.
Dondi Dionisio
Software Developer
Developer and teacher with colleagues and students on the spectrum, using wheelchairs, with therapy animals. Everyone is awesome.
Community Manager
Lucky mom of four humans, one on the spectrum. Social media nerd. Community manager at heart, on the job and off.
Co-Founder and Executive Chairman
Dad to 3 boys. His oldest son, who has multiple disabilities, sparked his obsession for breaking down barriers to a fully inclusive society.
Co-Founder and CTO
Loves to help teams build great products that solve important problems + drive real innovation and technological advancement.
Education Advocate, Content Specialist, and Writer
Radical inclusionist, advocate for parent engagement, community builder, PTA leader, mom of an 18-year-old man with Down syndrome.
Lead Navigator
Mother of two amazing kids with IEPs for dyslexia, sensory processing disorder, Central Auditory Processing Disorder, and ADHD.
Content Assistant and Writer
Writer by day, avid reader by night. Passionate disability ally dedicated to being the change they want to see in the world.
Director of Health Plan Advocacy
Addicted to working for the win with health plans and being a listening ear for families like hers. She digs customer service calls!
Head of Content and Community
Inclusionist. Compassionate agitator. Fueled by good humans and storytelling. Mom to a teen with multiple disabilities who leads the way.
Public Benefits Specialist
Prior advocate at a disability rights nonprofit. Current advocate for a daughter with Down syndrome who relies on a feeding tube and Sesame Street.
Liz Villa
Researcher
Mother of two active boys always ready to help find a solution to promote inclusive practices.
Meg Keough
Account Manager, Researcher, and Health Plan Services Coordinator
Supporting families through research and health plan advocacy to build the best-fit care team for our children.
Software Developer
Teacher and builder of software to improve the world and the people in it; inclusionist and ally.
Researcher
Creative problem solver driven by curiosity and challenges. Passionate about using skills to make a positive impact and achieve outstanding results.
CEO
Father of two, a passionate problem solver, and tech leader who loves rolling up his sleeves to find solutions.
Senior Product Designer
Lover of the arts and serene natural spaces. Inspired by Undivided families and understanding their full experience.
Tom Child
Content and Research Assistant
Disability ally, committed to education and equality, music lover, and caretaker of a reasonably well-mannered cat.
Whitney Bailey
Researcher
Disability advocate who loves to help others maximize their potential.
Undivided Advisors
Leading voices across medicine, education, and operations, so the guidance families get reflects current best practice.
Chief of Division of Neurology,
Co-Director of Neurological Institute, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles,
Professor of Neurology and Pediatrics at Keck School of Medicine of USC
Professor, Vice Chair, and Division Chief of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital
Partner at Golden Gate Pediatrics, alumna of Georgetown University and University of California San Francisco, on the clinical faculty at UCSF, fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics.
People and finance leader, former Chief People & Culture Officer for Smartsheet (NYSE: SMAR)
Startup Advisor, Founding Engineer & CTO at Glassdoor, Launch Team & Director of Engineering at Hotwire, an Expedia Group company