Andreanela O.C. (she/her(s)/ella) is from Santa Ana, California and is a graduate student pursuing studies in Latin America Studies. Andreanela is passionate about becoming a community educator and artist. Outside of academics, she enjoys crocheting, embroidery, and learning about sharks. She serves as a youth advisor with Stanford’s Center for Youth Mental Health and Wellbeing and participates in community-based research and activism focused on gender-based violence in Mexico. Through The Neurodiversity Alliance, she hopes to build community with other neurodivergent people and embrace the opportunity to try something new.