Episode 19: Jaimee Kadish, "The teachers who were labeling me instead of being curious were failing me. The last thing I want to tell a student is you won't do x, y or z."

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Jaimee Kadish is a Southern California native from Santa Monica where she spent her youth playing a variety of team sports. She began her journey in movement training by attending Los Angeles County High School for the Arts where she studied classical modern dance, ballet, jazz and improvisational techniques. She pursued higher education in dance performance, completing her Bachelors in Fine Arts degree at California State University, Long Beach. After being diagnosed with Retinitis Pigmentosa, a progressive eye condition, she pivoted her focus from dance performance to kinesiology and functional movement training. With a passion to deepen her knowledge of supporting young children through movement, she expanded her education, earning an Associate of Arts degree in Early Childhood Education. While developing her skills and tools as a classroom teacher, she recognized the need for movement-based education in school and program settings. She founded her new nonprofit, In-Sight Outreach to empower the visually impaired and blind community through movement literacy. After understanding the mental and physical challenges of what it means to be visually impaired, she has embraced this new identity with compassion and curiosity and aims to encourage others to continue their journeys alongside her own.