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Gather: A Future Vision for Community Space
Gather is a vision for a welcoming community space rooted in connection, stories, and shared experiences.
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Why Belonging Needs More Than Good Intentions
Belonging should not depend on luck. It takes relationships and support that people can return to.
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What Helps Neurodivergent Young People Find Their Voice?
What makes a young person feel safe enough to speak?
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Why the Belonging Collaborative Goes Beyond One Event
Stories remain the foundation. The next step is to build the relationships that help those stories become practical change.
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Writing From the Margins: Bruised Not Broken
If you’ve ever gone looking for yourself in a book, a classroom, or a conversation and come up empty, you know the particular ache of it. Not being disagreed with — being unimagined. The world we’ve inherited wasn’t built with a common language for neurodivergent identities, which means too many of our stories go unwritten, unshared, or quietly dismissed. To speak up is to risk not being believed. To stay silent is to disappear into the margins.
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About the Author: Riley Mulcahy
I’m Riley Mulcahy, Executive Director of The RILEY Project. My path to this work began early: I was diagnosed with dyslexia at age seven. Like many students with learning differences, I encountered moments of frustration and self-doubt — but I was also fortunate to experience schools and mentors who saw my strengths, not just my challenges. Those inclusive environments didn’t just help me succeed academically; they helped me understand who I was and what I could become.
That experience shaped everything that followed.
The RILEY Project exists to foster agency, empowerment, and belonging for students and families navigating learning differences. We believe that when people are given the tools, language, and spaces to tell their own stories, real change becomes possible. Confidence grows. Strengths emerge. Futures open.
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