Jessie Lorenz and Amber DiPietra
Jessie Lorenz and Amber DiPietra Jessie Lorenz and Amber DiPietra Jessie Lorenz and Amber DiPietra Jessie Lorenz and Amber DiPietra

Jessie Lorenz and Amber DiPietra

Recorded April 29, 2010 Archived April 29, 2010 01:18:48
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Id: SFB000790

Description

Amber DiPietra, 29, and Jessie Lorenz, 31, talk about their visual impairments, and how they navigate the world.

Subject Log / Time Code

5:36
Amber, through her work at Lighthouse for the Blind, says she talks to a lot of people with layered eye issues such as glaucoma and cataracts and how she feels good that she can help them map out the help they can get.
9:30
Amber talks about how disabilities are viewed differently than before. that in the early years disability wasn’t a pride word and that the “disability community” and “independent living” was not big then.
19:30
Amber talks about how she went to a liberal arts college in Tampa and realized she could definitely live life on her own. She remembers her first trip to San Francisco and she new she would move there.
23:30
Jessie says she too felt there was a special place for her in San Francisco where “there’s a uniqueness in San Francisco where it is accepted that you push the envelope.”
26:39
Jessie talks about how it is a struggle for young people to come to terms with their own self-worth and disability and that to her being blind is just a characteristic, “like having brown hair.”

Participants

  • Jessie Lorenz
  • Amber DiPietra

Venue / Recording Kit

Partnership

Partnership Type

Outreach