Meet Wendy (California)!

"Employment is the key to independence."

Laila Wendy, a woman in her thirties with a blue shirt. Wendy is a Placement Specialist with the Helen Keller National Center providing job readiness training programs to prepare DeafBlind participants to receive, retain, and excel at a new job.

Listen to a podcast with Wendy and National APSE's Erica Belois-Pacer to hear more about her work and life. Wendy shares her experience as a sibling and with family coming to the US from El Salvador as refugees.

Wendy says of her work, "My goal is to nurture the individual's desire to be self-sufficient and to have choices to live their best life. Hence, employment and the pre-skills are what will ultimately allow the individual with a disability or not, to live fully as all humans should."

a deafbliind chef stirring a pot of food at work wWhle wearing his uniform.