'If an average sighted kid can build a career in STEM, shouldn't an average blind kid be able to as well?' writes Joshua Miele
is principal accessibility researcher at Amazon and a 2021 MacArthur Fellow. He is a blind scientist, community leader, and inventor with a history of developing information-accessibility solutions for blind people.s a little kid, I was fascinated by the inner workings of every device in my family’s home. I would spend hours disassembling and reassembling radios, toasters, and other household appliances, trying to figure out how they worked.
With this early understanding of disability-related problem solving, I pursued my interests in STEM—science, technology, engineering, and math. My personal story of becoming a successful blind scientist, inventor, accessibility activist, and principal researcher at Amazon is equal parts luck and grit. However, I am once again reminded of the
Pursuing an education and career in STEM also required grit to push back against a world that assumed blind students couldn’t succeed in fields where diagrams, maps, equations, and other “visual” media were the ubiquitous tools of record-keeping and communication. But exceptionalism shouldn’t be a requirement for people with disabilities to flourish in science and math.
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