Ron Suskind is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and best-selling author, lecturer at Harvard Law School, and founder and chief executive officer of The Affinity Project/Sidekicks, a developer of augmentative technologies for ‘at need’ populations, starting with autism.
Ron Suskind
Founder
The Affinity Project/Sidekicks
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21 February 2017 | 9 min read
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