Elia once worked for the Department of Health and Human Services. With the Holman Prize, she would teach a series of workshops on nutrition and physical fitness to blind and low vision people.
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Dawnelee Wright
Dawnelee is an author and a business marketing student. With the Holman Prize, she would develop and teach a disability curriculum at Confederation College to promote disability awareness to students and staff.
Chandana Pochiraju
Chandana is a playwright and an event organizer. With the Holman Prize, she would run Vibrance to start at Zero, a series of workshops to empower people to pursue their hidden talents.
Alieu Jaiteh, The Gambia
Alieu is the founder of Start Now, a training program for blind people in The Gambia. With the Holman Prize, he would provide eighty blind people with rehabilitation training in rural Gambia.
Elif Emir Oksuz
Elif coedits a Turkish magazine about disability. She would use the Holman Prize to start a nonprofit that produces educational materials for blind children and blind parents in Turkey.
Brendan Patrick
Brendan is a podcaster, musician and artist. With the Holman Prize, he would direct, score and star in a film about an artist who lives with monsters, based off his original artwork.
Yuma Decaux, Australia
Yuma loves hiking and surfing. With the Holman Prize, he would build an online community to make astronomy more accessible to blind people, with the hopes of a blind person discovering an exoplanet.
George Wurtzel
George is a woodworker. He would use the Holman Prize to bring people to his art studio to explore woodworking, the outdoors and spend time with other artists to learn from them.
Nathan Liu
Nathan is fluent in German and proficient in Mandarin. He would use the Holman Prize to make his short film, Call the Sandman, and work to ensure visually impaired children see his film.
Justin Holland
Justin is a competitive bodybuilder. With the Holman Prize, he would develop Vision Driven, an apparel brand that would promote facing challenges in your life head-on.