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2019 Semifinalists

Read about our 41 Semifinalists and dive into their pitch videos on our YouTube playlist.

2019 Semifinalists

Meet the 2019 Semifinalists

Read about our 41 Semifinalists and dive into their pitch videos on our YouTube playlist.

Claire Spector

Santa Rosa, California, USA

Mona Minkara, USA

2019 Holman Prizewinner

Jennifer Lavarnway

Spokane, Washington, USA

Deniz, Yunus, Utku & Mina

İstanbul, Sariyer, Turkey

Bonface Massah

Lilongwe, Malawi

Ness Vlajkovic

Perth, Western Australia, Australia

Natalie Devora

Alameda, California, USA

Michelle Young

Craigton, Glasgow, United Kingdom

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Claire Spector

March 8, 2019 Christina Daniels Leave a comment

Claire is a textile artist. With the Holman Prize, she would bring together blind weavers and blind textile artists to create new art, develop online and traveling exhibitions, and strengthen confidence in art-making.

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Jennifer Lavarnway

March 7, 2019 Christina Daniels Leave a comment

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.

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Joshua Loya

March 7, 2019 Christina Daniels Leave a comment

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.

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Mona Minkara, USA

March 7, 2019 Christina Daniels 3 Comments

Mona is working on postdoctoral research in computational chemistry. With the Holman Prize, she would film a documentary series called Planes, Trains and Canes, where she would navigate and access the public transportation systems of five cities around the world.

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Deniz, Yunus, Utku & Mina

March 7, 2019 Christina Daniels Leave a comment

Deniz, Yunus, Utku and Mina are from Turkey. With the Holman Prize, they would take the Trans-Siberian Express from Moscow to Beijing and create a documentary about it to inspire blind children to travel independently.

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Bonface Massah

March 7, 2019 Christina Daniels Leave a comment

Bonface is a human rights activist. With the Holman Prize, he would create parent circles, so parents could discuss how to raise children with albinism and change the perception of children with albinism in Malawi.

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Ness Vlajkovic

March 6, 2019 Christina Daniels Leave a comment

Ness is finishing up her degree in journalism. She would use the Holman Prize to open a braille bookstore in Perth, for blind and Deafblind people to have easy access to hard copy braille books.

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Trevor Attenberg

March 6, 2019 Christina Daniels Leave a comment

Trevor loves science and the outdoors. With the Holman Prize, he would travel and teach blind people to identify birds by sound and explore other natural soundscapes.

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Brian Malvin Sithole

March 6, 2019 camoo Leave a comment

Brian Malvin Kudakwashe co-founded Alive Albinism Initiative Trust. With the Holman Prize, he would open a manufacturing plant in Zimbabwe that produces sunscreen for people with albinism.