May 7, 2026 · 49 min · 20 segments
Welcome back to another episode of the *AccessWorld* podcast, a podcast on digital inclusion and accessibility from the American Foundation for the blind (AFB). In this episode, Tony and Aaron unpack…
Tony StevensHostAaron PriestHost
We're recording this, uh, a, a little under two weeks from [clears throat] the major event when our last podcast dropped with you and Lee, which was cool to hear from Lee again, Lee Huffman from-
APH, uh, former Access World editor and just all around cool dude in West Virginia.
But so we were... had the Helen Keller Achievement Awards, annual awards ceremony.
But on the way back from the Harvard Club, like we had this wonderful night of, you know, regalia and, and celebration around some amazing people.
Molly Burke, the in- social media influencer and au- writer, and, uh, you know, she won an award.
Kathy Nimmer, who was runner-up for like the finalist for Teacher of the Year nationally, is a public school teacher, retired from Indiana.
She won an award and had several students actually come out from her school, or not her school, but the, her, uh, uh, as an alum of the Indiana School for the Blind.
And, and then T-Mobile, who we recorded, um, Isat Weiner and Brianna Burrows from T-Mobile were there to accept the award.
I don't know what episode, but folks can listen to them talking about the, uh, Magenta a11y.
I was the emcee, and we're sitting there just, you know, celebrating and talking about Helen's impact.
And it was really neat 'cause Helen herself, she went to Radcliffe College at the time, and Radcliffe was the sister school to Harvard 'cause Harvard did not technically officially allow women to receive a degree from Harvard until 1963, which that surprised me when I found out.
Yeah, but, but there was always Radcliffe College, which was a prestigious school in of itself in Cambridge.
We're recording this, uh, a, a little under two weeks from [clears throat] the major event when our last podcast dropped with you and Lee, which was cool to hear from Lee again, Lee Huffman from-
APH, uh, former Access World editor and just all around cool dude in West Virginia.
But so we were... had the Helen Keller Achievement Awards, annual awards ceremony.
But on the way back from the Harvard Club, like we had this wonderful night of, you know, regalia and, and celebration around some amazing people.
Molly Burke, the in- social media influencer and au- writer, and, uh, you know, she won an award.
Kathy Nimmer, who was runner-up for like the finalist for Teacher of the Year nationally, is a public school teacher, retired from Indiana.
She won an award and had several students actually come out from her school, or not her school, but the, her, uh, uh, as an alum of the Indiana School for the Blind.
And, and then T-Mobile, who we recorded, um, Isat Weiner and Brianna Burrows from T-Mobile were there to accept the award.
I don't know what episode, but folks can listen to them talking about the, uh, Magenta a11y.
I was the emcee, and we're sitting there just, you know, celebrating and talking about Helen's impact.
And it was really neat 'cause Helen herself, she went to Radcliffe College at the time, and Radcliffe was the sister school to Harvard 'cause Harvard did not technically officially allow women to receive a degree from Harvard until 1963, which that surprised me when I found out.
Yeah, but, but there was always Radcliffe College, which was a prestigious school in of itself in Cambridge.
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