Expertise
Mona Minkara in the Press
Travel + Leisure
These Blind Travelers See the World in Ways Beyond the Visual
Mona Minkara, an assistant professor of bioengineering at Northeastern University, has been blind from childhood. In 2019, she created Planes, Trains, and Canes, a YouTube series that follows her solo journeys around the world, including trips to Manila, Johannesburg, and Tokyo.
Nature.com
These tools help visually impaired scientists read data and journals
Experiencing data through touch can be especially powerful, says Mona Minkara, a computational chemist and bioengineer at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts, who began to lose her vision as a young child. Minkara collaborated on a 2022 study4 that described representing data as 3D-printed graphics called lithophanes.
This technology makes data accessible to blind and visually impaired people
NPR’s Mary Louise Kelly talks with Mona Minkara, a professor of bioengineering at Northeastern University who is also blind, about a new way to present science data to blind and sighted people alike.
