Yudi Bennett is the co-founder and past director of Exceptional Minds, an innovative visual effects and animation school and studio for artists on the Autism Spectrum. Exceptional Minds artists work on such hit movies as “Black Panther” and “Avengers: End Game”. Shewas the founder and past president of the Foothill Autism Alliance (www.foothillautism.org) and has served on the Exceptional Minds Board of Directors as well as the Board of the Uniquely Abled Project (www.uniquelyabledproject.org), a vocational program that trains adults with autism to work in manufacturing. Yudi is inspired every day by her son, Noah Schneider, a young artist who was diagnosed with ASD in 1997.