Retinitis Pigmentosa with Lance Johnson

Retinitis Pigmentosa with Lance Johnson

Transcript https://rb.gy/eakyw0

Who is Lance Johnson? 

Lance Kestrel Johnson is a 30 year old transplant from North Carolina, living in Brooklyn, NY where he works as a video editor. 

Lance has a degenerative eye disease called retinitis pigmentosa, which affects his peripheral vision and ability to see at night.

While he currently has most of his central vision, being diagonised with a disability made him interested in the disability comminuty as a whole.

That interest led him to create a podcast called The See-Through Podcast, where he discusses various topics of interest with people from the disability community.

In this episode Lance and Carden talk about:

Lance's first interview on a podcast

Lance's daily life with retinitis pigmentosa

Workplace and event acommodations for those with visual impairments

Normalizing medical equipment and devices ie glasses, wheelchairs

Independent learning about different disabilities

The problem with only getting 1 person's experience with a disability

Resources:

Connect with Lance

Instagram: 

@lancekestrel @seethroughpod

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Special thanks to my producer Jonathan Raz on Fiverr.com

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