Mental Health and Autism @Synchrony

I got to present on the urgent need for Mental Health Standards of Care for Autism at the Synchrony 2019 Conference

                                       

Splash@UC Berkeley


Got to teach at a group of High Schoolers for Splash at Berkeley today.  Such an amazing experience.  

Splash is an academic outreach program that was originally started at MIT. Splash classes are run by Berkeley students on a variety of topics and last anywhere from 1-3 hours. High schoolers are can sign up to attend as many as they want. 









But before you can teach Splash, got to attend a teacher training workshop on 10/19



Homeless in Berkeley



Diwali w Veena

Celebrating Diwali with my Veena Athai and Tilak Atimber
Except she does not want to be called Athai
She's too young she says.
Not the generation of my Dad!!




Limits to No Limits



I spent almost two months working on this article with documentation help from the Disabled Student Advocates on Campus and interviewing users of the program and faculty. 

No Limits was the name of individualized personal training offered to disabled students by the Rec Center at UC Berkeley. 

To summarize: 
Old No Limits Program = Free + Unlimited number of sessions of personal training 
Replacement Program being offered = Subsidized + limit of 16 sessions per academic year.

The history and politics of it all. 

Shutdown of Recreational Sports Facility’s No Limits program leaves disabled students with ‘new limits’

Kittu's Birthday

Attending my friend Kittu's Birthday. Was good to see him. Been a while.

Deej

I attended the screening of documentary Deej at UCSF and got to meet DJ Savarese too.
It is quite the journey. The second time I'm seeing the movie. It was screened at Berkeley the first semester I was there. I had reached late so it was nice to see the beginning this time.