n an AMI special titled “Speaking Up”, Ben is featured in a segment, where he is interviewed about the many ambassador roles he holds within the blind/low vision community. In the episode Ben expresses his passion for advocacy as well as reasons why advocacy is so important.
In this CNIB public awareness video titled “Business Without Barriers”, Ben is involved in writing the script, producing an has an acting role in the production.
In this CNIB produced video Ben sits down and shares his several intersecting identities and the importance of addressing them when working with persons with disabilities.
In a segment of AMI This Week Ben is a part of a conversation promoting a virtual Black peer group called Black Voices United. In the piece Ben highlights the importance of the group and its impact has on the Black Blind community.
Ben appears in the CNIB Phone it Forward commercial campaign, a campaign that encourages the public to donate their old smartphones to people who are blind/low vision.
Ben has fun and shows off his rapping ability with Bruce Cook, the host of the AMI show By Hook or By Cook in an AMI digital exclusive.
In this piece, Ben along side other young leaders chats about their experiences with the Fighting Blindness Canada’s Young Leaders program.
In the panel dedicated to advocacy Ben and two other panelists discuss how they use advocacy in their personal and professional lives, highlighting the ups and downs of being strong self-advocates.
In this panel called “navigating graduate studies with a disability”, Ben joins two other panelists to chat about his experience in graduate school and how graduate students with disabilities are working in activism spaces to foster a more inclusive learning community.
Along with co-hosts Neisha and Vivi; ben coordinates, produces and distributes a podcast titled “The Lens: Living Diverse”. The podcast explores the many facets of intersectionality from a blind, partially sighted and Deafblind perspective. Listen to all the episodes at the link above.
Ben is featured on an episode of AMI” Low Vision Moments”, where he tells side-splitting stories while chatting with host Jenny Bovard.
Read about Ben’s sight-loss journey through Fighting Blindness Canada’s publication of the White Cane series.
Read about Ben’s sight-loss journey through Fighting Blindness Canada’s publication of the White Cane series.