The Blind Chick

It’s almost Colorado Gives day! This year, we're celebrating our 30th anniversary of our first news broadcast in 1991. On this episode of Aftersight, Alice George walks us through AINC’s history - through various changes to programming and technology. She also talks about her vision loss and loss of hearing - but none of that has stopped her from having a powerful impact on the world. https://ainc...

Gail doesn’t believe in letting barriers stand in the way of life. Born ten weeks early, the treatment that helped her survive also caused retrolental fibroplasia - or complete blindness. Today on Aftersight, we explore her life, from how she struggled with depression and even contemplated suicide to her adventures singing opera, climbing the 75-story Story bridge, and her work as a writer on Soar...

Ethan’s story is as staggering as it is heartwarming. Born in Ethiopia, he was taken and blinded at a young age - then forced to beg for those who injured him. Believed dead by his mother, Ethan was adopted in 1997 and relocated to Missouri where he lived with 20 other adopted siblings. Today, Ethan is a father, an employee of the federal government, a founder of a nonprofit, and an unbelievably r...

Bonnie Barlow is a professional audio describer. That is, Bonnie narrates what is going on during movies, plays, ballets, television shows, and even rodeos for people who can’t see the action. Bonnie talks about how she started her journey as a professional audio describer almost 30 years ago and what makes for a vibrant audio description. Audio description is a fascinating topic that is extremely...

The week on Aftersight, Penn talks with Dale Hill, who talks us through his life and his experience with Bardet-Biedl syndrome, an inherited disease causing progressive loss of night and peripheral vision from retinitis pigmentosa. BBS can also cause a number of other symptoms and problems including: obesity, extra fingers and toes, kidney disease, and developmental disabilities. Dale is lively, a...

In Community Conversations #2, Penn talks with Robert Weinberg - a passionate and talented photographer who was struck with central vision loss when he was about 50 years old. Robert, now 74, talks us through his journey and career in photography and talks candidly about the finality of his diagnosis and the depression that followed. He shares the path he walked toward renewed independence and the...

Our host, Penn Street, lost most of her eyesight at age nine to Stevens Johnson Syndrome after being bitten by a rattlesnake. Her husband, Moses Street, is a professional photographer. In our first-ever Community Conversation, they have a warm and candid conversation about the 30+ years they’ve spent together and the realities living, working, and travelling side by side. After a few decades, they...