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Content Warning: This podcast contains material of a sensitive nature.  Emily Hill, director, Customer Experience, joins us to go over Aira’s terms of service found at www.aira.io/tos. Then Product Manager Ryan Bishop takes us through the Aira Roadmap. This podcast contains chapter markers for easy navigation. 

Learn about Aira’s recent roadmap for the coming year with a new app and new features. We’ll also talk hands-free solutions and uses for visual interpreting. Plus, promos! 

Aira CEO Troy Otillio, Product Manager Ryan Bishop and the Aira Engineering Team share future plans for our service over the next year and beyond. 

The Aira Access Network makes it possible to use our service free when doing many tasks. We’ll explore how entities become part of the network and make some major announcements regarding new partners. 

In this episode we bring you some news about our Covid Vaccine Promo. Then hear about our action-packed schedule at NFB21. Finally our agents tell you about their favorite calls. 

Join us as a panel of explorers and Aira staff discuss the past year in relation to social justice and advocacy around the Black community. How did we feel? What did we do? What have we learned? 

The June Explorer Call introduces one of our Development Team, talks about upcoming conventions and events for Aira and celebrates  the history of Juneteenth. 

This episode aired on April 30, 2021. The National Zoo is part of the Smithsonian Institution and this week we pay them a visit to check out pandas, elephants and more. Hey! Don’t forget the naked mole rats! 

In honor of Memorial Day we visit the National Veterans Memorial and Museum with special guest, Paul Mimms and Agent Wendell Hennessey. This interactive museum shows us what Boot Camp is all about, lets people exchange dialog about veterans and the military and tells the story of the people behind the uniforms.   

Mike Hudson, Director of the American Printing House Museum, http://aph.or/museum, takes us on a fascinating tour. We’ll learn about segregated schools for the blind and the evolution of the Braille writer and other artifacts. It’s a great touchstone to blindness history.