Jill Escher

Jill Escher is president of the National Council on Severe Autism (NCSAutism.org), past president of Autism Society San Francisco Bay Area (SFAutismSociety.org), and a prominent autism research philanthropist through the Escher Fund for Autism (EscherFund.org). She is also a provider of affordable housing for adults with autism and related developmental disorders. Jill served as the first non-scientist elected to the governing council of the Environmental Mutagenesis and Genomics Society. Deeply involved in the autism community, she is known both for her outspoken advocacy on housing and supports, as well as her community service, which includes co-chairing the annual Adult Autism Conference at Stanford University, and providing more than 50 informational and recreational events per year for the Bay Area autism community. A former lawyer, she is a graduate of the UC Berkeley School of Law and Stanford University. She and her husband have two children with severe, nonverbal forms of autism and live in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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