Jaimi Lard Biography

Jaimi Lard loves adventure. She has surfed skied swung on a trapeze and testified before Congress. Born deaf and blind she is extraordinary but she is also as ordinary as anyone: she eats out at restaurants enjoys meeting friends for coffee and rides a bike. She was a Girl Scout.
As the Diversity & Inclusion Speaker for Perkins School for the Blind Lard engages and entertains while challenging audiences to embrace inclusion and value the ability of every person. In a typical year she addresses dozens of groups and thousands of individuals about living independently as a person who is deafblind.
She annually testifies before Massachusetts legislative committees advocating for programs and services for people with deafblindness. In 2006 she addressed over 10000 people at the Lions International Convention the first person who is deafblind to address this convention since Helen Keller did in 1925. Lard was named a “Hero Among Us” by the Boston Celtics Shamrock Foundation for her advocacy work for people with disabilities and was invited to accept an a posthumous award for Anne Sullivan from the Irish American Hall of Fame among many other honors.

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