My name is Matias Solorzano, and I am a 22-year-old autistic adult. I go by he/him pronouns. I am from Alameda, CA, an island in the San Francisco Bay Area. I am a first-year graduate student in the Psychology Academic Research MA program, where I will write a thesis about a neurodiversity-related topic. As an ODEI Student Fellow, I will work with the SDRC and the Accessibility Fellows to ensure that the Cal Poly Humboldt campus is inclusive and accessible to everyone. The DEI issues I am most passionate about include neurodiversity, disability, and accessibility. The best way to contact me is through email: mgs120@humboldt.edu. 

As an undergrad at CSUEB, I was involved in the disability justice movement on campus and participated in neurodiversity advocacy. I felt inspired to join the neurodiversity advocacy movement after being more informed about my identity as an autistic person and taking a political science course covering advocacy movements. Some of my disability advocacy successes include: helping pass a disability justice resolution that was presented to the Academic Senate at CSUEB by giving a speech in support of the resolution and providing ideas about how to improve campus for students with disabilities within the disability justice resolution, proposing a partnership between CSUEB and the Stanford Neurodiversity Project, founding a student-led organization related to disability justice, starting discussions within the psychology department at CSUEB about neurodiversity, and inviting the director of the Stanford Neurodiversity Project, Dr. Lawrence Fung, to give a lecture about “ The Strengths-Based Model of Neurodiversity” to the CSUEB campus community.