Alexandra Rego is a Peer Researcher in the ARC Lab in the Department of Health and Society at the University of Toronto Scarborough. Alexandra is a person with lived experience of disability (physical, learning, and visual). She has a background in education and supportive teaching strategies, holding diplomas in both Early Child Education and Teaching, and Educational Support from Sheridan College. Alexandra’s research interests are in disability and the accessibility of healthcare across the life course with particular focus in: disability and women’s health (sexual and reproductive), the reproductive health impacts of aging with a disability, disability and the accessibility of youth reproductive health care transitions, the impact of accessibility in reproductive health care and mental health and the disparities between disability and health care provider knowledge of disability. She has also been involved in projects promoting effective engagement of patient partners and peer researchers in research.