Aftersight’s 4th supportive experience, the Audio Trekker Hike, took place on July 27, 2024. A record number of hikers hit the trail to support Aftersight and spend the day as a community in the beautiful Colorado outdoors. Thanks to our volunteers, sponsors, and hikers, we raised over $15k to help Aftersight continue to offer services for free to Coloradoans … Read more
Hello, Thank you to all who sponsored and participated in our Audio Trekker Hike. We now move into fall, my favorite time of year and goes so quickly. It is a season of beauty and change. At Aftersight it is a season of planning for the coming year. This includes programming, outreach, and of course … Read more
A native Coloradan, Jennifer Neptune, served in Costa Rica, Colombia and Brazil for over 20+ years as a missionary serving marginalized populations, presenting them with resources and opportunities to not only survive but thrive in life. She returned to the States in 2021 and found jobs that would reach populations that needed care, connection and … Read more
Penn has been with AINC for nearly two years. Penn is blind, and, she has spent most of her adult career working with that community. Growing up with vision loss, she had many amazing organizations which came to her aid, so she understands firsthand the impact nonprofits can have. Now, working with these types of … Read more
Brady grew up in New Ulm Minnesota, a town of thirteen thousand known for “a small box feel, a large German population, and the second largest family-own brewery in the United States,” where a “whole bunch of nothing happened.” He went to University nearby to study French and Spanish but left the midwest to … Read more
Matt began volunteering for AINC in 2010, but his inspiration for volunteering began much earlier. During his second semester of college he had an internship for Chicago Land Radio Information Service, which was also an audio information service for the blind. He wrote their newsletter for three or four months. Thirty years later- after working … Read more
Evan is an avid hiker, enjoys having new experiences, and loves music- all sorts of music, “even new country music.” This is fitting, seeing as he is AINC’s audio production technician. At 21 years old, he is trying to live his life differently from other people his age. Initially, he was going to college to … Read more
Lauren grew up in Colorado and studied chemistry at Florida State University. She worked as a pharmaceutical chemist for a while and interned in forensic chemistry for gunshot residue analysis with the Wyoming State Crime Lab, before realizing that a lab was the best fit for her. After, she had a variety of odd jobs, … Read more