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Our Institutional Lineage and Outcomes
Institutional Lineage snapshot
February 2013
I See Music LLC founded
January 2015 – June 2024
IBHE member
13 years
Adaptive training → workforce learning
September 2021
I See Music Foundation Inc 501(c)(3) established
November 2025
dba Open World Design 501(c)(3)
2026
Scaling, the rebuild, systems-building, pivot, implementation, strategic planning, testing and feedback, evaluation, internal auditing, revision, retool, council-building, grant-writing, researching, learning, growing, adapting, Blindness Awareness Month inaugural event - The Sensory Symposium
2027
National expansion increasing the scale and depth of impact and field-building
Outcomes
10+
years of work
80
people trained as engineers, producers, singer-songwriters, instrumentalists, DJs, podcasters, voice actors and others
79
graduates
98.75%
completion
17
certifications
70+%
employed/freelancing
27
states
7
countries
32
organizational partners
2
employer partners
73
people received rehabilitation services training support
45+% of learners had educational goals for post-secondary school; 100% earned their degrees.
55% of learners were on an entrepreneurial track and ~ 65% are currently freelancers.
Training Diaries
Learners’ stories, in their own voices.
Andy Slater
Audio & transcript coming soon
Jasmine Duffy
Audio & transcript coming soon
Raymond Black
Audio & transcript coming soon
Organizational Partners
- Sweetwater
- Guitar Center
- Tri Electronics
- Full Sail University
- Shure Microphone
- Native Instruments
- Slavic Livins
- National Federation of the Blind-CO State Affiliate
- American Council for the Blind
- Valley Eye Radio
- Progress Center
- RAMP’D
- Able Musician
- Sound Without Sight
- WinnerFest
- San Francisco Lighthouse
- AVID
- San Diego County School District
- UCSD Design Lab
- MindWave Therapeutics
- Q4 Radio
- Southside Radio
- Chicago’s historic Grand Ballroom
- Soulful Chicago Book Fairs
- 3Arts
- The Polus Center
- RMS Audio
- Northwestern University
- Be My Eyes
- Metropolitan Business League
- Young Sound Seekers of the National Park Service
- Washington Professional Systems
Employer partners
Chicago’s historic Grand Ballroom, Q4 Radio Station
States
- California
- Vermont
- North Carolina
- Massachusetts
- Indiana
- Illinois
- Florida
- Colorado
- Michigan
- Minnesota
- Georgia
- Wisconsin
- New Mexico
- Washington
- Connecticut
- Maryland
- Pennsylvania
- New Jersey
- Ohio
- Nebraska
- South Carolina
- Mississippi
- Rhode Island
- Kentucky
- Hawaii
- Iowa
- Texas
Countries
- Australia
- Germany
- Italy
- Wales
- Guatemala
- Mexico
- United States
Essential honorable acknowledgments from the inception
- Phyllis Harden-West
- Stephanie Harden
And to all who have supported this powerful alchemical programming through its life cycle.