Paladin Profiles Ep. 2: Kenia Flores

This is "Paladin Profiles” The Paladin newspaper's biweekly spotlight on Furman community members making an impact on diversity and inclusion. Every other Friday, subscribers on our mail-list like you can expect to receive a video interview that highlights the important work Paladins past and present are doing to improve diversity and inclusion on campus and beyond.

This alumni profile is on Kenia Flores ’20. Flores is studying at the Louisiana Center for the Blind, focusing on blindness rehabilitation and training. She also works with the National Federation of the Blind, an organization that advocates for other blind people through legislative and community-building measures. In this interview, Flores discusses her work to improve accessibility for others with visual impairments and blindness, some of the challenges COVID-19 has posed to her daily life, and how Furman prepared her to face these challenges.