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Let's Talk Graduate School (LTGS) #4: The Neurodivergent Navigate Graduate School

Higher Ed needs all different minds, that includes you!

Location

Online

Date & Time

April 23, 2025, 12:00 pm1:00 pm

Description


Reposting!


How are neurodivergent students navigating the demands of graduate school? What accommodations, advocacy, communities, and other resources are in place for students. In a panel style discussion, learn from McNair alumni and our community of supporters about how they as neurodivergent students are navigating their graduate education and making the higher education space more accessible to students like them.

Panelists:

Dr. Amy Tondreau (she/her)
Assistant Professor of Elementary Literacy, Education Department, UMBC

Blake Hipsley (he/him)
PhD Candidate in Physics at the University of Michigan

Diane Stonestreet (she/her, they/them)
PhD Student, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Cornell University

Zaira Girala Munoz (she/her)
English, The Ohio State University, PhD. I am a rhetorician, my sub specialties are disability studies and rhetoric of health and medicine 


This event is open for full participation by all individuals regardless of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, or any other protected category under applicable federal law, state law, and the University's nondiscrimination policy.