Media Moments

Recently Prada and I have received a considerable amount of media attention. You may recall the NPR program that I participated in a few months ago? Well, the Director of Public Relations at UAH heard the program and asked if UAH News could do a story on me. Here’s the link.


The picture in that article is apparently very popular. I had so many comments on it that I finally put it up as a facebook profile picture and added it to my Google profile.

I guess its good press to have a ‘successful legally blind student with a dog guide who traveled across the country to go to school here’ at your university. (I’m beginning to hate the phrase ‘successful blind person’….). And UAH could certainly use some good press right now, what with the shooting a few months ago and some very unpopular policy changes.

An Ohio radio station programming for blind people also heard the NPR interview and asked me to join them via phone on one of their programs, so I did. I’ll get a recording of that up as soon as they get a copy to me.

Just this last Thursday the PR Director at UAH called me to let me know that local TV channel 19 also wanted to do a piece on me. He had forwarded my story with UAH News to them (I suppose in hopes of spreading around good will towards UAH) and they decided to jump on the bandwagon. However…I found out they wanted to do an interview 20 minutes before they wanted to record it! I had to miss my favorite class of the semester with one of my two favorite professors and didn’t have any time to prepare, dress up, or anything. Fortunately I knew they hadn’t had time to come up with any interesting questions, it’d just be the same “how’d you get here, what are you studying, what do you want to do with your life, what’s your secret of success?” type stuff that I get asked all the time so I didn’t have to think about any of my answers.

Not four hours after that I got another call from the PR office saying the Huntsville Times also wanted to cover my story. I’m interviewing with them tomorrow and will let you know how that went. So…in the future expect links to one radio show recording and one TV show recording.