Where legacy becomes future.
Where institutions and communities meet.
One identity, two strengths
GLC is both a Consortium—a network for research, partnerships, and systems change— and a Collective—a community of lived memory, creativity, and grassroots voices. Founded by Bailey Reid Gwyn, we preserve memory, advance justice, and innovate with integrity.
This dual structure isn’t just organizational—it’s philosophical. The Consortium creates institutional interfaces for change. The Collective ensures that change is grounded in lived experience. Together, they form a feedback loop: community voice shapes research priorities, and research findings inform advocacy work.
Founded from lived experience
Bailey Reid Gwyn is a disabled interdisciplinary researcher, systems developer, and disability rights advocate whose work bridges neuroscience, genomics, anthropology, and ethical technology. Bailey’s research areas include:
Translational Neuroscience & Systems Biology — Investigating how memory, cognition, and neurological conditions intersect with identity and systems design.
Ethological Anthropology — Studying human behavior, social structures, and the cultural systems that shape—and are shaped by—lived experience.
Disability Justice & Civil Rights — Advocating for accountability, accessibility, and transparent reform across healthcare, education, and public institutions.
Bailey lives with hyperthymesia—the rare neurological ability to remember nearly every detail of lived experience with involuntary clarity. Hyperthymesia is not photographic memory or exceptional rote learning; it’s autobiographical hypermnesia, meaning memory is tied to dates, emotions, and sensory details in ways that shape daily life.
This condition, layered with traumatic brain injury (TBI), Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (EDS), and other complex disabilities, informs the very foundation of GLC’s work: memory has weight. Memory has consequences. And memory, when preserved with dignity, becomes a tool for justice.
Consortium
Institutional interface
- Partnerships with research institutions, policy organizations, and reform-focused nonprofits
- Development of research standards and ethical evaluation frameworks
- Advocacy for transparent, evidence-based systems change
- Technology design grounded in human rights and accessibility principles
Collective
Community voice
- Community archives preserving testimony, oral histories, and lived memory
- Storytelling projects that center marginalized and disabled voices
- Creative practice as a form of healing and advocacy
- Grassroots outreach connecting individuals to resources and reform efforts
Core principles
GLC operates on four foundational commitments that guide every initiative, partnership, and decision:
- Memory with dignity — We preserve testimony in ways that honor lived experience, protect privacy, and resist exploitation or sensationalism.
- Justice through transparency — We believe accountability requires visibility. Our processes are documented, our methods are open, and our findings are shared.
- Innovation that serves people — Technology should solve real problems, not create new ones. We prioritize ethical AI, local-first design, and human oversight.
- Accessibility by design — Disability justice isn’t an afterthought—it’s embedded in how we structure work, communicate findings, and build tools.
Why GLC exists
Too often, systems designed to serve people end up harming them. Schools fail students. Hospitals deny care. Justice systems ignore evidence. And when harm occurs, memory—especially disabled memory, marginalized memory— is dismissed, questioned, or erased.
GLC was founded to counter that erasure. We document what systems don’t want documented. We validate what institutions dismiss. We build what communities need but can’t access through traditional channels.
Our work is rooted in the belief that the people closest to a problem are closest to the solution—and that research, technology, and policy should amplify those voices, not silence them.
How we work
GLC initiatives operate at the intersection of research and action:
- Institute for Civil Memory — Documenting testimony, protecting rights, and advancing accountability through archives and advocacy.
- Audia AI — Building privacy-first, neuro-inspired AI that remembers with dignity and serves disabled users without surveillance.
- Research & Publishing — Conducting interdisciplinary work in neuroscience, genomics, anthropology, and systems reform—made public and accessible.
- Clinician Companion — Providing evidence-based clinical tools, documentation guides, and ethical care resources for professionals supporting complex disability cases.
Join the work
GLC grows through collaboration. We partner with researchers, advocates, storytellers, technologists, and community organizers who share our commitment to memory, justice, and ethical innovation.
Whether you’re interested in contributing to research, sharing testimony, building tools, or supporting our work—there’s a place for you here.