February 2022
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Penny Forward Transcript S2022E4 Seeing The World In Ways You Never Imagined
George: Subaru decided to hire me to do a car ad. And that was just out of the blue. I have nothing to do with the acting industry, I don’t have an agent, I didn’t know anybody in the movie business, but they put out a casting call that said they were looking for a…
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Penny Forward Podcast S2022E4 Seeing The World In Ways You Never Imagined
Have you always believed that you could only make a living if you went to college? George Wurtzel was the star of a 2018 Subaru Outback commercial, but he is also a blind woodworker and craftsman who believes that blind people can be successful in any type of job. In part 1 of a two…
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Penny Forward Transcript S2022E3 Accessibility’s Final Frontier
Sheri: We need our best people. We need our most creative, most whimsical, most joyful, most passionate people doing the important jobs. And a lot of those jobs are in the space industry. If one out of five people on the planet has some kind of disability, we simply, as a species, cannot afford to…
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Penny Forward Podcast S2022E3 Accessibility’s Final Frontier
Will blind people ever live and work in space? This week, on the Penny Forward Podcast, Sheri Wells-Jensen will tell us why she, and Mission: AstroAccess believe that it’s critical that even an environment as hostile as space must be accessible to everyone. We’ll also learn how it feels to experience zero gravity and how…