Our Ambassadors

Christine Ha is the first-ever blind contestant and season 3 winner of TV’s MasterChef. Ha holds a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Houston and a Bachelor of Business Administration from The …

The first Deafblind person to graduate from Harvard Law School, Haben Girma is a human rights lawyer advancing disability justice. President Obama named her a White House Champion of Change. She recei …

Hoby Wedler, Ph.D., is a scientist, sensory expert, and entrepreneur. In 2011, Wedler founded Accessible Science, a nonprofit organization that leads annual chemistry camps for blind or visually impai …

Marcus Roberts, hailed as the “the genius of the modern piano,” taught himself to play piano at age five after losing his sight, and stated taking lessons at 12. At 18, he went on to study classical p …

Matthew Whitaker taught himself to play piano at age 3, the Hammond B3 organ at age 9, and four years later he became the youngest artist to be endorsed by Hammond in its more than 80-year history. He …

Rebecca Alexander is an author, psychotherapist, group fitness instructor, advocate, and extreme athlete who is almost completely blind and deaf. Born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, she cur …

Russell Shaffer is serving as emcee for our "Dinner and Music for a Historic Celebration" event. He is the senior director of Global Culture, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion for Walmart Inc. and AFB’s f …