As promised, here’s the happy ending to Ali Krage’s post about applying for a part-time job at Northern Illinois University. Before reading this one, though, be sure to catch Part 1. by Alicia Krage The interview questions were precisely the ones my parents had asked when we were practicing. I had a question I wanted […]

You might recall a post our guest blogger Ali Krage wrote in 2016 explaining how college students who are blind can figure out how to get around a new campus without being able to see. Well, she figured it out! Three years later, Ali is in her final semester at Northern Illinois University and landed a […]

Happy October! The school year is back in full swing, and yesterday morning my friend Jamie drove Seeing Eye dog Whitney and me to Deerfield, a suburb of Chicago, to talk with third graders at Kipling Elementary School. We were there as part of Educating Outside The Lines, a disability awareness program that uses a […]

Our guest blogger Ali Krage is on a role! In the post she wrote about returning for her last semester at Northern Illinois University (NIU), she talked about the challenges and rewards of being in college when you can’t see. A week has passed since we published that post, and Ali is already so busy […]

You might recall a post our guest blogger Ali Krage wrote in 2016 explaining how college students who are blind can figure out how to get around a new campus without being able to see. Ali must have mastered that very well — today she is heading back to DeKalb for her final semester. Here […]