Name: Victoria Seitz

Social Justice Group: Disabilities: Access to Education for Neurodiversity (A)

Date of Fieldwork: January 29, 2025

Name of Organization and person (people) with whom you met and their title(s):Shannon M Bennett Conference

What I did and what I learned about my topic, activism, social justice work or civil and human rights work from this fieldwork:

Me and my group went to Weill Cornell to watch a conference Led By Shannon M Bennett. The start of conference was mostly information about the Cornell Youth Mental Health workplace and goals. That did help let us know that this conference would be showing ages from 13-28.

As the conference kept going I got the names of a lot of doctors, that would be great for interviewing. In the conference I got to know more about the brain development in teens. This made a lot of sense to me as it connected to what we are learning in choices. The conference was also easily understood because of the amount of graphs. It showed us a example of what we could use in our presentation.

It was also interesting to me that mostly doctors were the ones who attended this talk. Overall, this conference was very helpful. I took a lot of notes and can’t wait to write about our interview with Shannon M. Bennett next!