Neurodiversity Celebration Week Zine 2025
Are you a neurodivergent poet, author or artist? Submit a piece of your work to be included in our annual Neurodiversity Celebration Week Zine! We would love to include your work. We are especially looking for creative works around the ideas of neurodiversity celebration, pride, and futurity. All kinds of works are welcome: poems, short stories, paintings, comics, vignettes, and more!

Matinee: The Wild Robot
10:30am-12:30pm, College of Veterinary Medicine,
Yarnell Lecture Hall 4 (sensory room in Lecture Hall 6)

Join us for a fun, family & sensory-friendly movie screening as we begin Neurodiversity Celebration Week! This inclusive event is open to the public. Cornell and community families are very much encouraged to attend. Enjoy a welcoming atmosphere with free snacks, a sensory room, and great raffle prizes!

Parking lots located on Campus Road at Tower Road; Event entrance at 606 Tower Road is accessible.

Building Belonging Fair
11:30am-1:30pm e-Hub (106A&B, Kennedy Hall above Trillium)

Join us and learn about the wide variety of supports and services available on campus for students, staff and faculty. Network, share ideas and best practices in a relaxed, sensory friendly environment, with refreshments and raffle prizes!

Offices and organizations represented include student clubs, SDS, CAPS, Faculty and Staff Assistance Program, OISE, Access and Community Empowerment at CALS, QGrads: LBGTQ+ Graduate Student Association, OADI, Multicultural Academic Council, Cornell Libraries, and many more.

Accessible entrance (platform lift) on Garden Avenue.

Story Night – Tales from Cornell’s Neurodivergent Community
Students, Faculty, Staff, Alumni, General Public
7:00 – 9:00pm, Physical Sciences Building 401 & Zoom

Neurodivergent students, faculty, staff and alumni will share their life experiences and how they celebrate their neurotype.

Accessible entrance through the Clark Hall Breezeway in the rear.

Research Poster Night
7:00 – 9:00pm, Toni Morrison Multipurpose Room

Come see the variety of neurodiversity-related research and research in other areas conducted by neurodivergent people at Cornell!!

Entrances across from Morrison Dining are accessible.

Mindful Yoga for Neurodivergent People
11:30am-12:30pm, Founders’ Room, Anabel Taylor Hall

Join us for a Yoga session in a sensory friendly, relaxed environment. Led by Melissa Filut-Weiner, PE instructor. This event is hosted in collaboration with Cornell Fitness Centers.

Please bring your own mat; if you need one, contact lms436@cornell.edu in advance to receive a free one (first come first serve basis).

Entrance on College Ave is accessible.

Neurodiversity Dialogues
3:00 – 4:00 pm, Zoom (please register here)

Dr. Quinetta Roberson Connally and her doctoral student, Joie Magalona, will be joining us for Neurodiversity Celebration Week to share their work on “Reconceptualizing Leadership from a Neurodiverse Perspective.” Please attend this discussion to hear more about neurodivergent leadership behaviors and their influence on leader and follower outcomes, as well as how neurodiversity and leadership research can be better integrated.

Passionate Pursuits Night
6:00 – 9:00pm, Bethe Common Room (235)

You’ll have the opportunity to meet new people, see (and interact with) their hobbies or special interests! We look forward to seeing what cool things everyone likes to do! 

We’re inviting anyone interested (individuals AND on-campus organizations) to table at this event.

Entrance near Noyes is accessible.

Sensory-Friendly Swim and Meet the Graduation Water Competency Requirement
10:00am – 12:00pm, Helen Newman Swimming Pool

Cornell PE & Aquatics is collaborating with us to provide you with a sensory friendly space to swim and/or meet the graduation water competency requirement. Please email bar28@cornell.edu for more information.

Sensory Friendly Spaces
5:00-7:00pm, 2nd Floor Atrium, CCC Building
(235 Garden Avenue)

Explore what a sensory-friendly space looks like! See sensory friendly furniture, weighted blankets, other wearables, white sound machines, and more. You will have the opportunity to engage in fun activities to find out how our senses work–proprioceptive, vision, hearing, smell, ventricular… you name it! We will also have items from our lending library to test and borrow!

This inclusive event is open to the public. Cornell and community families are very much encouraged to attend.

This event is hosted in collaboration with Racker and the Human Centered Design Department.

The entrance on Garden Avenue by the loading dock is accessible.