Jenara Nerenberg lectures widely on neuroscience, innovation, sensitivity, leadership, and diversity. Selected as a "brave new idea" presenter by the Aspen Institute for her work on re-framing mental differences, Jenara is also the founder and host of The Neurodiversity Project. She holds degrees from the Harvard School of Public Health and UC Berkeley. Her work has been published in Fast Company, New York magazine, Susan Cain's Quiet Revolution, Garrison Institute, Elaine Aron's HSP, Healthline, KQED, and elsewhere. In addition to her work as a journalist, Jenara is a frequent workshop facilitator, speaker, and event host for institutions including the Stanford Graduate School of Business and elsewhere in the San Francisco Bay Area.
“Divergent Mind explores powerful and positive ways to
understand our fundamental differences. Its focus on women is much
needed and timely. The book de-pathologizes those of us who most
profoundly and intensely think and feel the world around us. I
found it to be eye-opening and healing.” — Mary Pipher, New York
Times bestselling author of Women Rowing North and Reviving
Ophelia
"American psychiatry has increasingly taught our society to think
that people can be divided into two categories: those who are
'normal' and those who are 'not normal.' In Divergent
Mind, Jenara Nerenberg powerfully writes of an urgent need to
scrap that way of thinking, and replace it with a societal
appreciation for the many gifts that people with divergent minds
bring to our world. Hers is a clarion call for change." — Robert
Whitaker, New York Times bestselling author of Anatomy of an
Epidemic and Mad in America
“This book is powerful, much-needed for our times, and Jenara
Nerenberg offers a unique blend of personal, scientific, and
societal analysis. Divergent Mind is really for all
women, giving them the chance to understand each others’
invisible differences and gifts.” — Elaine Aron, PhD, bestselling
author of The Highly Sensitive Person
“What is ‘normal’? Who gets to decide? Jenara Nerenberg’s
wide-ranging Divergent Mind asks and answers these and other
essential questions, offering a vision for how individuals and
society can take better advantage of the many ways in which we are
human.” — Louise Aronson, MD, New York Times bestselling
author of Elderhood: Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine,
Reimagining Life
“This wonderfully positive and accessible introduction to
the neurodiversity paradigm is packed with life-changing insight
for anyone whose way of experiencing the world diverges from the
ordinary.” — Nick Walker, PhD, autistic neurodiversity
scholar and aikido teacher
“Empowering…. This important book not only advocates for research
and innovation; it demonstrates the power of acceptance, kindness,
and the celebration of differences.” — Booklist
“An extraordinary, jaw-dropping take on a topic with which many
women will identify.” — Library Journal STARRED review
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