5. Service Dogs with Pat (part 2)

We continue our conversation with Pat McKenna.  Pat is the Assistant Division Director at the New Jersey Commission for the Blind and Visually Impaired. He is also an attorney and a long time guide dog handler who lives with his wife and sons in Central NJ.

Transcript

Links related to the episode:
Pat and Finn Go-Pro video
The Seeing Eye
The Seeing Eye’s Guide Dog at Work campaign
The National Federation of the Blind
The rideshare (Uber and Lyft) accessibility issue discussed in this episode is so widespread in the US that the NFB legal department is conducting a survey to catalogue incidents for future legal action.
CNIB (Canadian National Institute for the Blind)

Hear more from Nathan Leigh who composed our music (link).
See more art from the Rev’d Stephanie London who created our title graphic (link).

A yellow lab in a guide dog harness sits on a rock with pine trees and a parking lot in the background.

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