The Audio Description Network Alliance presents this interview series with professionals and other experts.
The ADNA Presents
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251 episodes
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The Audio Description Network Alliance presents this interview series with professionals and other experts.
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Publishing Since
6/30/2020
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July 28, 2026
You Can't Be Fast and Good
<p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal" dir="ltr">Pre-recorded for our live Comic-Con panel, The Track You Never Heard, with Colleen Connor and Anna Capezzera.</p> <p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal" dir="ltr">Colleen is blind and runs Audio Description Training Retreats. She built it with a specific rule: the blind professional teaches, as an equal, instead of getting called in afterward to give feedback. Classes cap at eight. Notes go out ahead of time so class time is practice and feedback, nothing else.</p> <p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal" dir="ltr">Anna oversees the Audio Description department at Deluxe. She started as a writer, then learned the audio side so she could talk to her engineers in their own language. She walks through the whole process, order to delivery, including the weekend her entire team wrote in parallel to hit a schedule that was cut to a quarter.</p> <p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal" dir="ltr">Then the harder conversations.</p> <p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal" dir="ltr">Distributors can drop full seasons and split them across writers, so nobody holds the whole story.</p> <p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal" dir="ltr">Colleen makes the case for blind quality control catching what sighted QC won't.</p> <p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal" dir="ltr">Anna makes the case for hiring blind voice performers and reading what the audience actually says.</p> <p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal" dir="ltr">And Colleen's line, which is the whole episode in nine words: You can't be extremely fast and good at Audio Description.</p>
July 7, 2026
The $40,000 Bet: Soud Habbas on Trust, Small Bets, and Walking Away
<p>Soud Habbas spent his career building systems for nonprofits working in some of the hardest environments in the world: Jordan, Egypt, Rwanda, and the West Bank. As chief operating officer, he made sure programs actually worked, stayed honest with funders, and didn't put people at risk.</p> <p>In this conversation, Soud tells the story of a $40,000 bet on a small women's dairy cooperative that outperformed programs ten times its size, and a million-dollar-a-year partnership with the John Deere Foundation that worked because of one thing: trust. He talks about what it takes to hold a partner accountable without losing the relationship, and how he's applying the same principle to his own life after a recent layoff sent him back to the bar exam he never took.</p> <p>If you've ever been told your idea is too small to matter, this one's for you.</p>
June 23, 2026
Maria Miller: Listening, Liberia, and the Girl Who Said "I'm Networking"
<p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal"> Roy Samuelson sits down with Maria Miller, former Senior Private Sector Specialist with the International Finance Corporation. Maria spent 14 years traveling to more than 20 countries, including post-conflict zones, helping governments rebuild the economic rules that determine who can start a business, get a job, or build a future. She went to Liberia 3 months after a civil war ended. She monitored elections in Ethiopia. She worked in places where what she assumed was essential turned out not to be.</p> <p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal"> Then she retired early and moved her work closer to home. She now sits on the board of Girls Global Academy in Washington, DC, the city's first all-girls International Baccalaureate charter school, as vice chair and head of community engagement.</p> <p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal"> In this conversation: what Liberia taught her about what's essential, how you change a system slowly without claiming the credit, the personal cost of a career built across 20 countries, and what a teenage girl who said "I'm networking" revealed about why possibility has to be visible before it can be chosen.</p>
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