Alora Bowers (GVSU 2024) served as an undergraduate research assistant for the ARD in 2024. She double majored in English and Secondary Education, with a double minor in History and Writing, at Grand Valley State University. Her current interests lie in the intersection of neurodiversity, literature, and environmentalism. This is reflected in the subject of her capstone project which explored the growing conversation between autism and environmentalism through an examination of Me, Who Dove into the Heart of the World by Sabina Berman.