Katie Santoro is a Miami Herald Silver Knight Award winner in the Drama category. She became a Silver Knight after she was invited to Washington at age 16 to speak to members of Congress and the National Endowment for the Arts about the impact of budget cuts on arts funding. She has been an arts advocate for over a decade and recently became an autism advocate after a late diagnosis at age 24. She participated in Job Seekers and the SALT program at UM/CARD. Her favorite group is Women on the Spectrum Support Group. She babysits for a 12-year-old girl on the spectrum.
She hopes the future will be a world where clinicians have more accurate testing tools and knowledge to accurately identify women on the spectrum. Katie is the chair on the board of the Unicorn Children’s Foundation. She has traveled to 5 continents with the life goal of visiting all 7. She is a graduate of the University of Illinois and currently works full time at Cardinal Health.
