{"id":3790,"date":"2018-07-25T15:31:58","date_gmt":"2018-07-25T20:31:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blindabilities.com\/?p=3790"},"modified":"2018-07-25T15:31:58","modified_gmt":"2018-07-25T20:31:58","slug":"peter-walters-a-nuclear-scientist-and-venture-capitalist-his-journey-from-education-to-employment-nfb18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blindabilities.com\/?p=3790","title":{"rendered":"Peter Walters &#8211; A Nuclear Scientist and Venture Capitalist: His Journey from Education to Employment #NFB18"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--powerpress_player--><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_1873\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-3790-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/blindabilities\/PeterWalters.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/blindabilities\/PeterWalters.mp3\">http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/blindabilities\/PeterWalters.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Peter Walters &#8211; A Nuclear Scientist and Venture Capitalist: His Journey from Education to Employment #NFB18<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Blind Abilities continues their coverage of the NFB National \u00a0Convention, 2018 from Orlando, Florida, brought to you by Aira. In this short podcast, Jeff Thompson catches up with Peter Walters in the hotel coffee shop. Peter has a phD in Nuclear Physics and speaks about his journey through vision loss, his education through post-graduate school and his transition both into college and the workplace. Listen as Peter describes how he optimized his working in the classroom, how he dealt with a second level of sight loss, and the career decisions he had to deal with as a result. Meet this fascinating individual and hear his compelling story, courtesy of Blind Abilities and Aira.<\/p>\n<p>You can reach out to Peter for financial information or to chat about physics, via email at:\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:Peter.Walters@EndeavorCap.com\">Peter.Walters@EndeavorCap.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Thank you for listening!<br \/>\nYou can follow us on Twitter\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/blindabilities\">@BlindAbilities<\/a><br \/>\nOn the web at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blindabilities.com\/\">www.BlindAbilities.com<\/a><br \/>\nSend us an\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:info@blindabilities.com\">email<\/a><br \/>\nGet the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/appsto.re\/us\/demUab.i\">Free Blind Abilities App<\/a>\u00a0on the App Store.<br \/>\nGet the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.blindabilities.android.blind&amp;hl=en_US\">Free blind Abilities App on the Google Play Store<\/a><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<!--powerpress_player--><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_1875\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-3790-3\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/blindabilities\/PeterWalters.mp3?_=3\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/blindabilities\/PeterWalters.mp3\">http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/blindabilities\/PeterWalters.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p>http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/blindabilities\/PeterWalters.mp3Peter Walters &#8211; A Nuclear Scientist and Venture Capitalist: His Journey from Education to Employment #NFB18 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Blind Abilities continues their coverage of the NFB National \u00a0Convention, 2018 from Orlando, Florida, brought to you by Aira. In this short podcast, Jeff Thompson catches up with Peter Walters in the hotel coffee shop. Peter has a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17,373,263],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bapresents","category-career","category-college"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blindabilities.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Blind-Abilities-Logo.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6rcRg-Z8","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3715,"url":"https:\/\/blindabilities.com\/?p=3715","url_meta":{"origin":3790,"position":0},"title":"Amazon&#8217;s Peter Korn, Director of Accessibility, Gives Us a Demo of the Toshiba Fire TV and Amazon&#8217;s Fire Cube. #NFB18","author":"Blind Abilities Team","date":"July 8, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Peter Korn, Director of Accessibility at Amazon\u2019s Lab 126 Gives Us a Demo on the Toshiba with Amazon Fire TV Built-In and an Overview of the Amazon Fire Cube. 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