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Category Archives: STEM

Cassandra McNabb-McKinney: Working as an Embalmer

Posted on October 21, 2022 - 12:00 am by Amy Lynn Smith
A white woman with green eyes and brown hair that falls just past her shoulders, wearing a red top with a floral pattern.

Being an embalmer and funeral director isn’t on the list of many people’s career choices. In fact, it’s often a trade handed down through generations of a family. But for Cassandra McNabb-McKinney, it’s work she felt called to do, both by her own experience and her faith. When she was 16 years old, there was […]

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Meet Lucy Greco, Web Accessibility Evangelist with the University of California, Berkeley

Posted on March 25, 2022 - 1:30 pm by Shannon Carollo
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Career Conversations is a monthly Zoom interview of an individual who is blind or low vision and gainfully employed. Meet our first guest, Lucy Greco and watch her Career Conversation episode at the bottom of the page.  Lucy Greco, on what shaped her  Lucy, blind since birth, grew up in Canada with her mother and […]

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Kiran Kaja, Accessibility Lead for Instagram, shares what ignited his passion

Posted on March 25, 2022 - 9:49 am by Shannon Carollo
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Kiran Kaja has a rare form of Retinitis Pigmentosa (RP); while most with RP begin losing their vision in their teenage years, Kiran has been blind since birth. Thankfully, Kiran’s parents understood early on that blindness is but one characteristic of an individual and that he was and is fully capable. Blindness did, however, uniquely […]

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