For 11 years the College of Adaptive Arts, in San Jose, has been teaching adults with special needs. The College offers 74 classes and 4 years ago, they got a grant from the Adobe Foundation for a distance learning, now all the students are online.
Gleidson Martins was born in Brasilia and raised in Araguari, a small town in Minas Gerais state, Brazil. In 2017 Martins founded News UpNOW to produce content that matters to the Bay Area. In 2020 News UpNOW became registered as a non-profit organization.