In this episode of the Nation’s Blind Podcast, Melissa Riccobono and Anil Lewis are joined by Julie Deden, our 2025 Jacobus tenBroek award winner and executive director of the Colorado Center for the Blind. They are also joined by Wesley Hillman, a Kenneth Jernigan Convention Scholarship winner who was a first-time attendee of the National Convention. They discuss President Riccobono’s banquet speech and the importance of collective action and knowing our truth and capabilities as blind people.