Dr. Kathleen Bogart
Disability Advocate and Researcher
Dr. Kathleen Bogart is a Professor of Psychology at Oregon State University. She is a social and health psychologist specializing in disability, ableism, and the experiences of people with rare disorders. As a person with a rare disability herself, Dr. Bogart’s work seeks to advance advocacy and equity for people with disabilities.
An advocate for people with rare disorders and disabilities, she has served in leadership roles in the American Psychological Association Committee on Disability Issues in Psychology and the Moebius Syndrome Foundation Scientific Advisory Board. Passionate about disability community-building, she is the co-founder of the Disability Advocacy and Research Network (DARN) for psychologists who have and/or specialize in disability.
In recognition of her work, Dr. Bogart was named Elizabeth P. Ritchie Distinguished Professor in 2026, OSU Honors College Eminent Mentor in 2022, and she received the American Psychological Association Distinguished Contributions to the Advancement of Disability Issues in Psychology Award. She is a Fellow of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology and the Society for Experimental Social Psychology.
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Dr. Bogart is a frequent keynote speaker, consultant, and media contributor whose work has been featured in outlets such as The Atlantic, New York Times, Time, Science, Financial Times, Inside Higher Ed and Wired. Passionate about making psychology accessible to the public, she blogs about disability as diversity for Psychology Today and Substack.
Her work impacts public policy, having been cited by national and international policy documents nearly forty times, including by the National Institutes of Health, United Nations, United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), World Health Organization, and the UK National Institute for Health and Health Care Excellence (NICE).
In her free time, she develops pescatarian recipes for her recipe blog, The Perfect Recipe Project.
