Anindya Bapin Bhattacharyya grew up in a village twenty miles south of Kolkata and was born Deaf and became blind at age nine due to retina detachments. He learned how to speak in his native language, Bengali, and was able to attend a mainstream school. After losing vision in both eyes, Bapin was forced out of school as he could no longer lipread and there were no interpreting services available. After searching a suitable school, he was sent in 1983 to Perkins School for the Blind in Watertown, Massachusetts, where he tirelessly learned English, Braille, and American Sign Language (ASL) all at the same time! He graduated from Perkins in 1992. I then graduated from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock with a bachelor's degree in political science and served on the Chancellor's Committee on the Americans with Disabilities Act to make the university a better and more accommodating place for students with disabilities. Bapin currently works as the coordinator of the National Outreach Technology Development and Training Program at the Helen Keller National Center (HKNC) based in NY.