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Hari Srinivasan
Hari Srinivasan
Vanderbilt University: PhD Student Neuroscience, Laboratory of Carissa Cascio Affective Sensory Research Lab, Laboratory of Mark Wallace Multisensory Research Lab. NISE Fellow, Frist Center for Autism & Innovation, PD Soros Fellow, Public Voices Fellow @OpEd Project; UC Berkeley: BA (Highest Distinction, Highest Honors) Psychology/Disability Studies, University Medal Finalist. Berkeley Haas Scholar
TOPIC: Pebbles in the Pond of Change
Hari Srinivasan is a PhD Neuroscience student at Vanderbilt University. He is PD Soros Fellow, a NISE (Neurodiversity Inspired Science and Engineering) Fellow at the Frist Center for Autism and Innovation at Vanderbilt and a Public Voices Fellow at the Op-Ed Project. Hari is a member of two labs that research sensory issues in autism, the Cascio LASR Lab and the Wallace Multisensory Lab. He hopes his graduate school research will not just add to knowledge, but also contribute to translatable solutions. He also hopes to redefine the way autism research itself is done so it is more inclusive of the entire spectrum. Hari has autism, ADHD, limited spoken communication, sensory processing issues and other challenges that do present significant challenges in his everyday life and is very vested in seeing real solutions and progress.
Hari completed his undergraduate at UC Berkeley in Psychology (minor Disability Studies) where he was University Medal Finalist and Phi Beta Kappa amongst other honors. He was President of the student body, Spectrum at Cal and ran a class on autism for seven semesters. As a Berkeley Haas Scholar, he conducted independent research into the emotions of awe and empathy in autism.
Hari is active in the autism advocacy space and on the boards / advisory boards / scientific advisory of multiple disability organizations that address policy and research (ASAN, DREDF, Duke University’s ACE, The Brain Foundation, Autism Europe, and INSAR). He was also selected to be on NIMH’s Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee which helps advise federal policy on autism research priorities. His advocacy has been featured on President Obama’s Instagram on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act and his talks include speaking at the UN and several keynotes.
Hari also writes extensively on issues related to autism and has been published in various forums including high impact articles in the Time, Newsweek, Fortune, Boston Globe and Psychology Today. He is also an avid poet and creative writer with many of his works having won awards and published in numerous places, and has consulted for a Netflix science themed animated series for children.
You can read up or follow Hari on X/IG/FB @harisri108, BlueSky @neuroscientist, YouTube @autisticneuroscientist and his blog uniquelyhari.blogspot.com.
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