Sunday Edition with Anthony Corona

The highly anticipated 62nd Annual ACB National Convention is on the horizon, and the excitement within the blind community is palpable. This pivotal event signifies unity, mutual learning, and empowerment, and this year, it's taking place at the renowned Renaissance Schaumburg Convention Center Hotel in Schaumburg, Illinois.

Our community members are fervently preparing, registering for events, finalizing travel plans, and securing accommodations. The convention center is set to become a vibrant hub of enthusiasm and camaraderie. …

As we approach convention there has been a lot of information about the proposed Constitution Amendments, Resolutions and the process and of course our elections so we have invited some folks from the Voting Task Force, Resolutions and Constitution/Bylaws Committees to give us the rundown and answer our questions. We will get to the heart of what the membership is being asked to consider.

This week Anthony turns the show over to Lucy Edmonds who will be presenting an hour on Be My Eyes. She will speak to one of the company officers and has an one on one interview with a Be My Eyes volunteer. Join her with your questions about this awesome visual; interpretation service and share with the Sunday Edition audience some of your unique uses for the service. Then in our second hour Lucy will highlight great Community offerings; From the Book Clubs to the Braille instruction calls, socials to targeted learning who knows what fascinating persons and calls will be on the mic with Lucy, Guess you’ll have to listen…

During the first hour, we visit with Natalie Couch who is the new Member Services Administrative with the American Council of the Blind. During the second hour, we welcome back Stacey from the Visioncast podcast to discuss her love of audio production.

This week we will catch up with Janet Dickelman about convention, the Minn Convention and that popcorn and she will answer our queries about all things Schaumburg. Then we will catch up with Peter Alttschul; From the dizzying planning of the return of the FIA Showcase, his great work with the Employment committee and lets see how his Riding Elephants is going.

This week Anthony and crew welcome a panel of Sunday Edition regulars to tackle the subject and identify our strengths and weaknesses in this area. “Sight-lings” and “Blinkers” are terms I have heard too often in our community are they and other terms and opinions actually counter-productive to the goal of making the world at large more inclusive of our community. We will also examine the lexicon of language and how the words we use either reinforce our mission or create roadblocks     Our Panelists include; Paul Edwards, Cheryl Cumings, Debbie Grubb, Kenneth Semien, Jane Toleno, Penny Reader and the most important ones…

This week Anthony, Brynn and crew welcome Tristan and Richard of Imagination Storybooks to discuss their mission, vision and passion for making great stories as rich and robust as possible for the kids of our community. 

Richard Rieman and Tristan Snyder are part of the team behind Imagination Storybooks, a multi-award-winning non-profit that creates fully accessible children’s books from illustrated children’s books in audio and video formats. Imagination Storybooks creates audio narration of the story, then adds vivid audio descriptions of the illustrations. …

This week in our first hour Kony Simms and friends join Anthony and the Sunday Edition crew to fill us in on voting changes and procedures for this coming convention. Then in our second hour new team member Tabitha shares her journey to the new ADP Coordinator as we get to know her a little. Kolby and Jo Lynn will fill us in on their changing roles in ACB and how the new structure of Development will help Shepard ACB through our next 60 years. Bring your questions and Congrats for these amazing staff members and friends.

In the first segment Anthony welcomes Dan Spoone to share some details of how Interim Directorship will work for our beloved organization. There will be time for your questions and Shout-outs of congrats.

Then we Segway to OKO the revolutionary new Pedestrian Crossing App

Michael is founder and CEO of AYES. He holds a Master degree in Computer Science. Two years ago a blind family friend told Michael about his challenges while navigating outdoors. …

This week we welcome Friend to the show Jeanine Stanley to share her impressions of the famed CSUN; The great Tech, The Hob-Knobbing and as is the trend with Jeanine I am sure she will scoop us with an AIRA announcement or two, lol. Then in our second hour  friend to Sunday Edition David Goldfield returns to answer some of our questions about the Chat Bots that seem to have popped up all over the place. We will return to his impressions of Mastodon and see what in the Tech world has him excited.