Are you a parent or young adult interested in learning more about navigating college life as a neurodivergent student? Join us for this insightful live session where we'll share openly about Ryan’s first year at UCLA and what we learned along the way.  We hope that by sharing our experiences, we can offer you inspiration, support and resources as you approach the college adventure ahead.

Event Highlights:

• Gain insights from both a parent and child perspective on navigating college as a neurodivergent student.
• Discover what worked, where we faced challenges, and how we're building a stronger foundation for Year Two.
• Leave with practical tips and strategies. 

This session isn't just about college; it's about building bridges of understanding, fostering resilience, and paving the way for neurodiversity advocacy. Your presence also helps us by providing an external deadline and sense of purpose for us to synthesize our learning, modeling an aspect of how we've learned to embrace what works with our neurodiversity to motivate us. 

About Ryan:
Ryan is a neurodivergent student at UCLA, getting ready to begin his sophomore year. Planning to major in Sociology or Communications with minors in film studies and disability studies, he is passionate about neurodiversity advocacy and sharing his own experiences to pave the way for others. He is currently collaborating on a new campus-wide neurodiversity initiative to make UCLA more inclusive for students like him. This summer, he served on staff for the Stanford Neurodiversity Project - Research, Education, and Advocacy Camp for high schoolers wanting to create neurodiversity advocacy projects. He was also a speaker at the 2021 Stanford Neurodiversity Summit and has been a guest host on the Mother’s Quest Podcast. Ryan was diagnosed with autism at the age of 18 months old and also identifies with ADHD and anxiety. 

About Julie:
Julie Neale is a life and leadership coach, mom to two neurodivergent boys, and founder of Mother’s Quest and the Mother’s Quest Podcast. Started in 2016, Mother’s Quest provides inspiration, coaching and community for mothers who want to live their version of an E.P.I.C. life while raising their children. At the age of 50, Julie received a diagnosis of ADHD, realizing that she herself is also neurodivergent. The diagnosis explained a lot and has provided a window for her to better understand what it’s like for her children to try to embrace their differences while finding strategies to address the challenges that come alongside. This year, Julie will serve on the UCLA Parents' Council and looks forward to working alongside Ryan, from a parent perspective, to support neurodivergent students and their families at UCLA.