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Alix Generous is a professional speaker, business consultant, neurodiversity activist, genocide behavior analyst, theater actress, and PhD student in Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Gratz College.

She grew up in Potomac, MD & Santa Fe, NM, graduating from the College of Charleston & University of Vermont in 2016. At 19, Generous won first place in a nationwide competition hosted by SustainUS for her work on quorum sensing and coral reefs. Her paper, titled “Environmental Threats on the Symbiotic Relationship of Coral Reefs and Quorum Sensing,” was published in Consilience: The Journal of Sustainable Development, a publication affiliated with Columbia University. In November 2013, she served as a youth delegate for the UN Convention on Climate Change (COP19), where she negotiated technology transfer and addressed issues of medical importance. She also assisted neuroscience researchers at the Medical University of South Carolina, Tufts University School of Medicine, and the University of Vermont. She was a co-owner of the startup Podium (formerly AutismSees), which developed technology tools to help individuals give presentations. Alix retired from Podium in 2016.

She graduated from Pepperdine University in 2021 with her master’s in behavioral psychology and soon became an international behavior analyst. She lived in Los Angeles until moving to Santa Fe, NM in 2023. Studying holocaust and genocide studies at Gratz College, she is a PhD student who specializes in counterterrorism and human behavior in genocide as a behavioral analyst.

As a professional speaker, she has spoken about autism and neurodiversity around the world, most notably the Sydney Opera House and at TED and TEDx.  Her TED talk “My Inner Life” has received over 2 million views. She raises awareness about autism, neurodiversity, disability stigma, and institutional abuse drawing from her own experiences growing up autistic and with ADHD.

She regularly consults and speaks for different businesses such as Neurotalent Works, which runs initiatives to get autistic people hired by corporations, the Smithsonian Institute, RAND, and EBSCO. She was a script consultant for the TV show, Everything’s Gonna Be Okay which ran for two seasons on Freeform pictures.

Alix loves musical theater and has been in productions of Something Rotten, The Sound of Music, and Oklahoma for a few different community and semi-professional theater companies in both Los Angeles and Santa Fe. She trained as a ballet dancer and as a pianist.

She is passionate about helping her community and changing the world.