Getting your first guide dog is a challenging, exciting, life changing thing, as the two of us both know very well. We find out about this and more from this week’s guest on Outlook.

Jinnie Saran has been a youth representative and now mentor, with an organization out of British Columbia, Canada known as Blind Beginnings, along with her work with the Camp Bowen Society.

Today we speak with Jinnie about how she researched and chose The Seeing Eye (the oldest guide dog school in North America), on the lack of representation in literature and media which has Jinnie exploring her options studying English/creative writing/journalism/history/editing, and on matters surrounding diversity and identity as we grow into who we are.

During June and Pride Month, pride and this discussion has us exploring intersectionality, with one of the members on the recent panel, “In Their Own Words,” from our recent Canadian Federation of the Blind convention. Finding pride in living as blind people and in our own abilities takes time and effort, but Jinnie is a part of Blind Beginning’s Limitless podcast and all three of us agree that it’s better to ask “how can each of us do the things we want to do” rather than stopping at “can’t”.

“No” to limits and “yes” to a greater level of representation and accessibility, nothing stopping our latest Outlook guest from doing all the things.

Follow Jinnie on Twitter:

https://twitter.com/jinniesaran

Learn more about Blind Beginnings and both the Limitless podcast and blog where Jinnie is a contributor on their official site:

https://www.blindbeginnings.ca

Find the other Blog posts Jinnie writes for Camp Bowen here:

https://cobd.ca/author/pl-6019e53f1304e70012154dd5/