Elsa Sjunneson: DeafBlind fencer, hiker, published author | American Masters | PBS

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This short film is an extended look at some of the themes explored in American Masters—Becoming Helen Keller, and hopes to provide an accurate and updated representation of modern DeafBlind role models who navigate the world today.

Elsa Sjunneson is a person of many talents—she's a professor and media critic, a skilled fencer and hiker, and published author who has written for Marvel Comics. Through her work, she wants to change the misconception people have of the DeafBlind community, and show them as loud, capable, strong people. "It's important to me to work in the genre because I want there to be disabled people in the future. I want us to imagine disabled people in the future. I want to be in the future."

This version of the film contains Closed Captions (CC). For the version of the film containing American Sign Language interpretation (ASL), Audio Description (AD), and Open Captions (OC), click here:    • Elsa Sjunneson: DeafBlind fencer, hik...  

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