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Mark and Pat Maurer
Dr. Mark Maurer is the president of the National Federation of the Blind (NFB). His wife, Pat Maurer, was formerly a schoolteacher and currently works at the national headquarters for the NFB. They discuss how they learned braille and its importance in their lives, both professionally and personally.
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Tony Merriweather
Tony Merriweather works at the South Carolina School for the Deaf and Blind in Spartanburg. He discusses what it was like to learn braille, what devices he uses to read and write, and the work he does with students.
Jodi Floyd
Jodi Floyd teaches blind and visually-impaired children in the northeastern region of South Carolina, which is Florence, Marion, and Dillon Counties. She discusses how she first became interested in such students as well as what she's learned over the course of her career.
Callie Sandel
Callie Sandel is a graduate student at Clemson University working on a master’s degree in public administration. She reads both braille and print in her daily life and uses a wide range of assistive technologies for her studies.
Tracy Bundy
Tracy Bundy works as a teacher for the visually impaired in Richland School District 1 and has been a native of South Carolina her whole life. She discusses learning braille as a child and how she became a teacher.
Harriet Davis
Harriet Davis, a resident of Columbia, South Carolina, lost her sight late in life. She is a member of the National Federation of the Blind and has recently begun taking braille classes so that she can continue to enjoy reading.