The 2025 ADP Award recipients have been announced! These annual awards honor the people and organizations that make outstanding contributions to the quality and availability of audio description.
This year, the award went to:
- Media: Nefertiti Matos Olivares
- Performing Arts: Bronwen Andrea Okwesa
- Public Sector: Laurie Wohl and the Florida School for the Deaf and Blind Arts Department
- Museums, Visual Images, and Visitors Centers: Abby Jones and Craters of the Moon National Park
- Special Achievement Award: the partnership between the National Park Service, as represented by Michele Hartley, and the University of Hawaii, as represented by Dr. Brett Oppegaard
- The Barry Levine Memorial Award for Career Achievement in Audio Description: Fred Brack
Enjoy the ADP Awards presentation and acceptance remarks here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkHXLRXiNz8.
The American Council of the Blind (ACB) and the Audio Description Project (ADP) commend and congratulate these extremely deserving award recipients and thank them for their hard work and dedication to audio description.