Co-Chairs

Co-Chair

Sasha Balasingam is a rising senior at Los Gatos High School in Los Gatos, California and will serve as co-chair of the NNEA Core-Committee for the upcoming year. She grew up as a younger sibling of a sister on the Autism Spectrum and has been involved with several forms of neurodiversity all her life through serving as a representative for special needs inclusion and advocacy. Over the past few years, she has worked with police and fire departments to install a program that helps first responders during emergencies with neurodiverse individuals. Outside of her neurodiversity work, she loves playing piano, dancing, taekwondo, and working in town government.

Co-Chair

Isabelle Hsu is a high school senior and is serving as SNP NNEA’s Co-Chair. Being neurordiverse, she attended 2020’s SNP-REACH where she learned so much that she co-founded her high school’s Neurodiversity Club and her own nonprofit later that year. She came back to SNP-REACH in 2021 to share her experience and joined the leadership team of NNEA’s core committee as the SNP-REACH Support Coordinator where she’s provided other high schoolers feedback and assistance with their neurodiversity projects. She is also a camp counselor at the 2022 SNP-REACH and serves in the 2022 Stanford Neurodiversity Summit as an organizing committee member and moderator. Isabelle loves music; she's been tutoring piano to autistic students for over 2 years, and she’s also been the drum major of her school’s award-winning varsity marching band.