Hari Srinivasan has autism and ADHD with very limited speech ability, and primarily uses AAC to communicate. He is a PhD Neuroscience student at Vanderbilt University, a PD Soros Fellow and a Fellow at the Frist Center for Autism and Innovation at Vanderbilt. Srinivasan graduated from UC Berkeley as University Medal Finalist, along with Departmental Citation Award, Highest Honors, Phi Beta Kappa and Psi Chi. As an undergraduate Haas Scholar he carried out a year-long independent funded research on awe and empathy in autism. He was also lead student instructor for a weekly class on autism at Berkeley, creating and teaching content that covered a myriad of issues across the lifespan. As a student journalist at The Daily Californian, he has written over 50 articles on both disability and non-disability topics. He headed Team Propaganda at the UC Berkeley Disability Lab, which hacks low cost solutions for a wide range of disabilities. He has been a research assistant at the Berkeley Psychology Labs on projects related to mental health, ADHD, and sleep. He also served as student president of the Berkeley campus organization Autism: Spectrum at Cal, stressing the idea of autism needing to go beyond mere Awareness, Acceptance, and Inclusion and towards Belonging. Srinivasan’s other affiliations include Vice Chair of Board of ASAN, Non Federal Committee member of IACC, Council of Autistic Advisors for the Autism Society of America and Community Advisory Board for The Brain Foundation.
