“Building AI Boston” is a dynamic and engaging show dedicated to exploring artificial intelligence (AI) through open, inclusive conversations. Centered in Boston, a hub of innovation and technological advancement, the show is designed to bridge the gap between AI thought leadership and everyday understanding. We seek to demystify AI by connecting with real people and sharing real-world applications, ensuring that everyone—regardless of background—can join the conversations around ethical considerations, innovation and accessibility.
All content for Building AI Boston is the property of Building AI Boston and is served directly from their servers
with no modification, redirects, or rehosting. The podcast is not affiliated with or endorsed by Podjoint in any way.
“Building AI Boston” is a dynamic and engaging show dedicated to exploring artificial intelligence (AI) through open, inclusive conversations. Centered in Boston, a hub of innovation and technological advancement, the show is designed to bridge the gap between AI thought leadership and everyday understanding. We seek to demystify AI by connecting with real people and sharing real-world applications, ensuring that everyone—regardless of background—can join the conversations around ethical considerations, innovation and accessibility.
AI-Powered Accessibility with Raquel Ranzone, Perkins School for the Blind
Building AI Boston
23 minutes
1 day ago
AI-Powered Accessibility with Raquel Ranzone, Perkins School for the Blind
In this episode of Building AI Boston, we sit down with Raquel Ranzone, Associate Director of Strategy & Partnerships at the Howe Innovation Center at Perkins School for the Blind. Raquel shares her powerful story of being born four months premature with Retinopathy of Prematurity and how that experience fuels her work connecting the disability community with the innovation community. We talk about why accessibility is everyone’s business, why disability is the only group anyone can join at any time, and how many of the “everyday” technologies we rely on—from touchscreens to audiobooks—actually began as disability tech.
Raquel also explains the $40B opportunity in disability innovation, the gap between what people with disabilities truly need and what the market builds, and how Perkins is mapping more than 2,500 disability tech solutions worldwide. It’s a hopeful, practical conversation about designing for real people—not edge cases.
Building AI Boston – https://BuildingAIBoston.com
Perkins School for the Blind – https://www.perkins.org
Howe Innovation Center – https://www.perkins.org/howe-innovation-center
Raquel Ranzone (LinkedIn) – https://www.linkedin.com/in/raquelranzone
Apple Podcasts – https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/building-ai-boston/id
Spotify – https://open.spotify.com/show/building-ai-boston
YouTube – https://www.youtube.com/@BuildingAIBoston
Building AI Boston
“Building AI Boston” is a dynamic and engaging show dedicated to exploring artificial intelligence (AI) through open, inclusive conversations. Centered in Boston, a hub of innovation and technological advancement, the show is designed to bridge the gap between AI thought leadership and everyday understanding. We seek to demystify AI by connecting with real people and sharing real-world applications, ensuring that everyone—regardless of background—can join the conversations around ethical considerations, innovation and accessibility.
