For information on this year’s gala and upcoming events, visit Special Thanks To Our Sponsors Silver Star SponsorsĬomcast/NBC Universal Time Warner Media Bronze Star SponsorsĪmerican Printing House Spectrum Viacom-CBS Streaming Program CreditsĪ Doug Roland Films Production Edited by Cameron Taddeo Hosted by Thomas Reid of Reid My Mind Radio Podcast Special Guests in Order of Appearanceĭan Spoone, President, ACB Will Butler, Gala Chair and VP for Community, Be My Eyes Joel Snyder, Ph.D., Co-Founder of ADP and President of Audio Description Associates LLC Kim Charlson, Past President of ACB and ADP Co-Chair Barry Cronin, Retired, WGBH Carl Richardson, ADP Co-Chair Roy Samuelson, Voice Actor Simran Sethi, EVP for Development and Content Strategy, ABC Entertainment Satauna Howery, Voice Actor Charlie Cox, Actor Heather Dowdy, Senior Program Manager for AI and Accessibility, Netflix Conchita Hernandez Legorreta, Educator and Advocate Orissa Castellano Rodriguez, Executive Director, Canal 22 Tony Stephens, Director of Development, ACB Eric Bridges, Executive Director, ACB Petr Kucheryavyy, Senior Manager for Accessibility, Spectrum Amhed Fareed, Commentator, NBC Sports Lex Gillette, Paralympian Molly Solomon, EP & President, NBC Olympics Production Jason Momoa, Actor Nesta Cooper, Actor Christian Camargo, Actor Sarah Herrlinger, Senior Director of Global Accessibility Policy & Initiatives, Apple Kurt Warner, NFL Hall of Fame Quarterback Brenda Warner, Spouse Zachary Levi, Actor Sumaira Latif, Accessibility Leader, Procter & Gamble Marc Pritchard, CMO, Procter & Gamble Blake Stadnik, Actor Technical ProductionĪD Narration by Nefertiti Matos Olivares Audio description provided by Audio Description Associates, LLC Sound editing by Chris Snyder Captioning provided by Vitac Special thanks to the following organizations who assisted in technical production and securing clips for the event:ġ30 Agency, ABC Entertainment, the Academy Awards, Apple, Audio Description Associates, Canal 22, Dicapta Foundation, Netflix, NBC-Universal, Peacock, Procter & Gamble, Spectrum and WGBH. We are deeply grateful for the enormous level of support that made this inaugural event a success. Proceeds from this event support the ADP, which works each day to further audio description across a wide range of visual media. This is a core tenet of the Audio Description Project (ADP), a program of ACB. The inaugural AD Awards Gala celebrates and expands audio description in media.