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A non-profit division of Ripefruit Creative, design agency, that is dedicated to identifying and strengthening peripheral skills as they appear along the spectrum of neurodiversity.

Our mission is to infuse mainstream learning environments with curriculum, lesson plans and creative systems that foster comprehensive learning, enthusiasm, and confidence for ALL students.

2024 Season of the DEI+N Talks

Meet the Ripefruit Foundation Team

Ebony Kenney

Founder

Steven King

Operations

Laura Melamed

Promotion

Olivia Hadams

Grants

Sheila Lee

Management

Meet the Ripefruit Advisors

Nomita Advani

Art Therapist

Lori Rubeling

Professor

Kelllyann Few

Engineer

Nicole Fall

Artist

In Memoriam

We are honored to have received the support and commitment of the amazing Lori Stokes, Occupational Therapist, while she lived. She was very intregal to the Emotional Transparency Tags foundational conversations.

We honor her postumously and will continue to hold the standard of inclusivity and innovation that she championed.

Join the Community

Use one of our student timers:

Class is Starting in 5 min.

Other timers include:

Get the Sillies Out (3m)

Time for a Power Pose (3m)

Time to Breathe (3m)

You are special (5m)

Your Mental Fingerprint

"Neurodiversity" as a term can be a polarizing. There's enough of a range in definitions that people are often left wondering, just what it is. The Ripefruit Foundation approach is to benefit your mental fingerprint. Every mind is unique, just like a fingerprint. We can identify specific groupings to begin the conversation. We tend to refer to these:
- Individuals who identify with a specific condition that may require accomodations (ADHD, Austim, ADD, Dyslexic)
- Individuals who are learning English as a Second Language (ESL)
- Individuals who have strong ethnic or cultural affinity
- Indiviuals who have an emotional consideration (Depression, Anxiety, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder)
- Individuals who are gifted and require special needs considerations known as twice exceptional

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Community

Artists, Parents, Children, Teachers, Supervisors and Neurodiverse themselves come together to learn, share their stories and enhance learning for themselves and othes diagnosed as neurodiverse. Ripefruit.orgs work will empower the Neurodiverse to share their stories host support meetings, and work with artists to create what lessons. Best of all we plan to create quantitatives to gauge neurovariance and advocate for industry change in the area.

2022 Community Efforts

Homesick: Homelessness Outreach (Read more in the Outreach tab)
Food Justice: Healthy Parties (See our past work)
Education: Classroom Supplements
DEI + N: Neurodiversity Awareness
Healing (Incarceration and Global Trauma) Read the current proposal

(Click video to see some of our past work)

Current Work

Uploading lessons to lesson portals for teachers to use for free
Conducting DEI+N talks
Current Teacher Survey assesses avaiablity of Social Emotioal Learning (SEL) Resources
Developing apps to strengthen innate skills
Finding placement for SEL pilot program