Every mind.
Every space.
Repped.
Design for how neurodistinct people think — and every mind in the room does better.
Dr. Teresa “Dr. Vás” Vásquez is a radical technical leader who builds learning spaces where every kind of mind thrives. Twenty-eight years writing code. Hundreds of technologists taught. She speaks honestly about the climb and joyfully about the gift.
The Genius Games
You don't have to be neurodivergent to respond to stimuli. Every brain in the room is reacting to how you built it.
The Fidget Lab
Nobody's scared of the engineering process when it looks like a craft table.
An art-based STEM booth built around one build: your own fidget. You pick materials, sketch a design, make a prototype, test whether it actually feels good in the hand, and change it when it doesn't. That's define, design, prototype, test, iterate — the real loop, simple enough that an eight-year-old in safety goggles can run it.
It's the softest possible entry into engineering, and it works on anyone who's already decided STEM isn't for them.
Brain check:
myth or fact?
You are exactly enough.
You are right on time.
Dr. Teresa “Dr. Vás” Vásquez has spent twenty-eight years writing code and taught hundreds of technologists to write it too. She's a Software Engineer of the Year, a doctorate holder, and a repeat hackathon and pitch-competition winner — and a Black, neurodivergent woman who talks straight about the climb and joyfully about the gift.
She designs learning spaces on one belief: design for how neurodistinct people think, and every mind in the room does better. Her research covers neurodistinction, the future of work, and environment.
Mother of eight — four with two legs, four with four. A cook. A livestreamer. A woman who wears every color at once, on purpose. Her closing line, every time: when you love yourself first, loving everybody else gets easy.
Let's build the
room together.
Curiosity. Build. Share.