We are pleased to announce our inaugural panel of Holman Prize judges, who will come together in June to choose three winners from all of our ambitious and adventurous candidates. Encompassing a wide range of expertise, including astrophysics, accessible tech, national politics, education and so much more, our international committee members — virtually all of whom are blind — embody the spirit of both James Holman, our finalists and the LightHouse for the Blind’s overarching mission. We can’t wait to welcome these individuals, some of whom are joining us from as far away as Denmark and India, to the table to select our winners in just a few weeks.
Read the biographies of all of our judges on the Holman Website, and stay tuned for a forthcoming announcement of our elite group of Holman Prize Finalists.
The 2017 Holman Prize Committee
JENNISON ASUNCION, Engineering Manager at LinkedIn
BRYAN BASHIN, CEO at LightHouse for the Blind
DON BROWN, CEO at Access Work Systems
DR. WENDY DAVID, Author and Clinical Psychologist
DR.WANDA DIAZ-MERCED, Physicist
CHRISTOPHER DOWNEY, RA, Architect and President at LightHouse for the Blind
CHANCEY FLEET, Technology Educator
JOHN HEILBRUNN, Vice-President at the Danish Association of the Blind
DR. JOSHUA MIELE, Research Scientist
BRIAN MILLER, U.S. Department of Education
JASON ROBERTS, Author of A Sense of the World
DR. ZACHARY SHORE, Author and Historian
DEBBIE STEIN, Author and Educator
SABRIYE TENBERKEN, Author and Advocate
DR. SHERI WELLS-JENSEN, Professor of Linguistics at Bowling Green State University
GARY WUNDER, Editor at The Braille Monitor