Support Society for the Blind on Big Day of Giving Unemployment skyrocketed during the pandemic – but unemployment for people with low vision or blindness has been a whopping 70% for decades. We’re changing that. At Society for the Blind, we...
Learn moreTracy Kinoshita is everywhere – coaching at Folsom High School, fostering for an animal shelter, consulting with organizations across Northern California and working for the United States Association of Blind Athletes. We considered ourselves...
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When Valerie Brooks began losing her vision in 2013, the now 66-year-old says she finally started seeing clearly. Growing up in Los Angeles, Valerie was a born writer, receiving praise for her poetry as early as 5th grade. Her mom was an...
Learn moreBrad Buchanan taught English at Sacramento State for 15 years, but it was not until he lost his vision from a stem cell transplant for lymphoma in 2016 that he realized the healing power of writing. “Throughout the process of being diagnosed and...
Learn moreJessika Whitmire Cano, director of senior outreach for the M&M Whitmire Family Foundation, taught her daughter how to write her name in Braille on World Braille Day in January. It was the perfect expression of the foundation’s two biggest...
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Ana Zambrano of Folsom was just 15 when she was diagnosed with a rare autoimmune disorder – but when her kidneys failed in her early 20s and her blood pressure spiked, she unexpectedly found herself with detached retinas. The mother of a...
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