Robert producers and director theater experiences for the blind. He would use the Holman Prize to bring Blindsight Productions, a theater group for blind and sighted children to San Diego, California.
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Lance Mathena
Lance is the founder of the North American Association of Blind Sportsmen. He would use the Holman Prize help other blind people build confidence through learning how to hunt and fish.
Jon Jelinski
Jon loves the outdoors. With the Holman Prize, he would seek out other blind people, to help them experience the outdoors, and have their stories appear in a national commercial to help change the perceptions of blindness.
Warren Davis
Warren loves basketball. With the Holman Prize, he would use basketball as a way to provide leaderships training to other blind people.
Jennifer Lavarnway
Jennifer is a former music teacher who loves to cook. With the Holman Prize, she would travel to Naples, Italy to train in the art of pizza making and open her own pizzeria back home.
Megan Paul
Megan taught English in Germany. With the Holman Prize, she would create workshops, online tutorials, mentoring and support to help people with disabilities find employment.
Joseph Nelligan
Joseph was a carpenter for forty years. With the Holman Prize, he would take a group of his blind and visually impaired friends skydiving.
Marco Salsiccia
Marco plays the piano and loves to cook. With the Holman Prize, he would travel with the ice hockey team, the San Jose Sharks, to their away games and evaluate the accessibility of the various arenas.
Matthias Peter Fuchs
Matthias is a psychologist. He would use the Holman Prize to travel Europe and show blind people the devices he’s invented for blind people to use.
Joshua Loya
Joshua is passionate about martial arts. He would use the Holman Prize to train and seek setting the world record for distance traveled on a wave by a blind surfer.