Growing up with a brother with Autism and having ADHD myself...

I've always felt the most empowered when learning about the unique strengths of my brain.

So Neurodiversity, the field studying brain differences and celebrating them as strengths (instead of the traditional deficit model) is close to heart for me

Coupled with a couple key teachers in school who truly understood and attempted to accommodate my quirks (inability to focus for more than 10 minutes at a time to lectures, needing highly detailed and scaffolded instructions...)

So when I learned at Dr. Lawrence Fung's new Neurodiversity focused lab at Stanford, I was 100% in.

After cold outreach and finding a place to plug in, we launched a network of high school leaders in a 10 week long summer program covering the basics of Neurodiversity, organizational leadership, and design thinking.

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