The Missing Voice in the Diversity Conversation | Sierra Grandy | TEDxWatkins Glen

Sierra Grandy, a neurodivergent, disabled attorney and mental health recovery advocate, shares her lived experience to explain neurodiversity and mental health recovery to people, organizations and workplaces. The talk focuses on reducing ableism and building environments where disabled and neurodivergent people can thrive. The talk was given at an independently organized TEDx event in Watkins Glen.

• Lived experience as a neurodivergent, disabled person in mental health recovery
• Explaining neurodiversity and mental health recovery to workplaces and organizations
• Reducing ableism and including disabled and neurodivergent people
• Speaker: educator, disability rights advocate and founder of Questify Your Life LLC

Sierra uses her lived experience as a neurodivergent, disabled person in long-term mental health recovery to help people, organizations, and workplaces understand neurodiversity and mental health recovery, reduce ableism, and build environments where everyone, especially disabled and neurodivergent people, has a chance to thrive. Sierra Grandy is a nationally recognized neurodiversity educator, disability rights advocate, mental health recovery public speaker, attorney, and founder of Questify Your Life LLC: a Multimedia Storytelling Studio & Creative Guild that helps Adventures make quests out of their lives. Additionally, Sierra is an avid volunteer and leader in her community, with leadership roles within the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), the Minnesota State Advisory Council on Mental Health, and the Minnesota Disability Bar Association. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx