Avari Brocker, from San Luis Obispo, California (she/her), is a first-year, studying Biomedical Engineering and minoring in Entrepreneurship at Cal Poly. After graduation, she hopes to run her own prosthetics company and run a nonprofit serving the neurodivergent community.

Avari enjoys speech and debate, poetry, and spending time with friends. She is involved in charitable work with the International Dyslexia Association, Learning Curb, and is the Director of Fundraising at a Mathnasium location. She is a committed advocate for the neurodiversity community, despite being diagnosed less than 3 years ago. Spending so much of her young life isolated from this incredible community is what motivates her to give back. The Neurodiversity Alliance, in her words, “is not only giving me an outlet to focus my passion, it’s giving me the opportunity to finally feel like I belong.” Avari is incredibly excited to see how her work with The Neurodiversity Alliance will continue to positively impact her community.