NYN Media CEO Corner Podcast on Accessibility Challenges

(Joe Bruno, left, and Nancy D. Miller.)

The number of New Yorkers and Americans suffering from visual impairments is expected to grow dramatically over the next few years. How will organizations cope with that challenge? We talked with two leaders helping to improve life for visually impaired New Yorkers. In Part one, our editor-at-large Aimee Simpierre talks to Joseph Bruno, the president and CEO of Helen Keller Services for the Blind, about how he adapted his political experience as former commissioner of the FDNY and later the Office of Emergency Management to lead the organization the provides services to the visually impaired. In Part two, we speak with Nancy D. Miller of VISIONS/Services for the Blind about making people aware of services they can qualify for, and the struggle to try to get the state to license vision rehabilitation and orientation and mobility workers.

New York Nonprofit Media regularly interviews nonprofit leaders to discuss their professional experience, lessons learned, perspectives on the industry and more. To recommend a candidate for our CEO Corner, contact Dan Rosenblum at drosenblum@nynmedia.com.  

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