Jen Smith, Foundation Board President
Jen Smith has 20 years of experience leading and managing traditional, digital, and emerging technology projects for nonprofit, government, and for-profit organizations. She’s passionate about accessibility and has been working on making digital spaces more inclusive since 2007. Before becoming the Director of Accessibility for Strategic Initiatives in Visa’s Design organization, she served as a Principal Program Manager of Accessibility at Microsoft and a Senior Accessibility Subject Matter Expert at JP Morgan Chase. She’s also served as a subject matter expert and strategist while a contractor at the Centers for Disease Control. She started her career as an on-air newscaster with an NPR affiliate station in Oklahoma City after graduating from the University of Oklahoma with a degree in broadcast journalism. Since that time, she has definitely taken roads less traveled and moved around the country, living in three of the four continental U.S. time zones.


Welcome Stephen Hamilton, our newest Foundation Board Member!
Stephen Hamilton with his guide dog Sumiko. We are pleased to welcome our newest Foundation Board Member, Stephen Alexander Hamilton to the Lighthouse community! Stephen is a United States Air Force [...]

Because of You
Richelle Ross (right) communicates with a Job Coach (left) For the past 30 years our daughter, Richelle, would say that her BEST days are the ones spent working at the Lighthouse. [...]

A Centennial Celebration for the History Books!
On Saturday, September 15th, over 320 guests joined us at The Museum of Flight to share in our Lighthouse Centennial Celebration. Acclaimed card mechanic Richard Turner wows guests with his performance at the event [...]

