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Highlights

Check out some of VOX’s projects, partnerships, grants, and more!

Jitterbugs dancing and Vox interpreting team signing, with captions projected them.

Open Door Theater – VOX’s Test Kitchen for Access

PartnershipsTrainings & Community Impact
VOX maximizes ODT as a Training Space for Access Providers and Hub for Accessible Performances: DASL Mentorship Cohort, DeafBlind module filming, Best Practices for Deaf actors, split ALD/AD headsets, and accessible performances (AD, ASL, open captions, preshows and sensory-friendly practices) …
a large group photo of Deaf community, including Deaf DASLs, Deaf and hearing audience, ASL Interpreting team, family and friends standing together in front of the stage at Cutler Majestic Theater.

Commonwealth Shakespeare Company

Partnerships
Since 2023, VOX has partnered with Commonwealth Shakespeare Company to prioritize accessibility and uplift Deaf, Blind and disabled access providers and audience in its productions and spaces. DASL/ASL team mentorship, AD and Tactile Tours, Open Captioning, and Accessibility Trainings for cast and crew of Shakespeare on the Common (CSC Apprentice …
Turquoise background with red and white confetti ornaments on the top and bottom. Vox logo (Black V, purple box-shaped O, black X, TM) on the top with blue and white text that reads, “Vox is proud to be a 2025 Model Equity Organization. Boston Cultural Council Grant.” On the bottom, City of Boston Arts and Culture logo and Boston Cultural Council logo.

2025 Model Equity Organization

Grants & Achievements
Think Outside the Vox is a 2025 Grantee Recipient of the Boston Cultural Council’s general operation grant for small to mid-size organizations. Read more about the BCC grant …
LEAD Conference Seattle 2024

LEAD Conference Seattle 2024

Trainings & Community Impact
Vox is Sleepless in Seattle The Kennedy Center’s Leadership Exchange in Arts and Disability Conference. Kristin Johnson and Christopher Robinson co-led an interactive DASL workshop along with DASL Rhonda Cochran of Sound Theatre Company, unpacking the benefits and criteria of DASLs versus interpreters. See our Facebook posts for more …
the ASL team performing in front of the Boston Landmarks Orchestra at the Hatch Shell. All stand with expressions of hope and promise, all gesturing something different with one hand.

Boston Landmarks Orchestra

Partnerships
Since 2023, VOX has partnered with Boston Landmarks Orchestra for their summer concert series at the Hatch Memorial Shell on the Charles River Esplanade with ASL performances by Deaf artists/DASLs and hearing interpreters, capturing the music with visual vernacular, visual-manual orchestration and haptic suits provided by NotImpossible Labs …
Vox at the roundtables for Lenny Zakim Fund Grantee Partner Gathering

The Lenny Zakim Fund

Funders & Professional DevelopmentPartnerships
The Lenny Zakim Fund is a major supporter for VOX: Transformative Leadership Cohort 2025; 2025 and General Operating Support grant. Think Outside the Vox earned a feature article which spotlights the ongoing partnerships with Boston-based theaters and how our grants and recognitions contribute to the impact of our workshops, mentorship and …
Huntington Theater Company

Huntington Theater Company

PartnershipsTheater
VOX has partnered with The Huntington Theater for its 2025-2026 season (second year) to provide ASL-interpreted and Audio Described performances with culturally competent teams …
Entire cast of actors and singers for Macbeth on stage in their white and neutral colored utilitarian and traditional military regalia bowing, waving and smiling. In the center front row, Léon Jerfita, a white male with short silver hair, a short white beard and one blue and brown eye signs “I Love you” with both hands towards the audience next to Director Steve Mahler, a tall white man in a blue suit.

Boston Lyric Opera

EducationPartnershipsTrainings & Community Impact
Vox DASLs Kristin Johnson and Sabrina Dennison supported Deaf actor and DASL cohort member Léon Jerfita with accessibility training for the BLO cast and crew. From Director of Macbeth Steve Maler: “Kristin [Johnson], the ASL competency training that you led had more impact with the cast and crew of Macbeth …
large group photo of Massachusetts-based arts professionals (former and current) standing, posing and smiling in front of an Arizona landscape with blue skies, a mountain on the right, cacti and desert plants and trees. Some pose with hands under chin, a peace sign, pointing and laughing. From left to right: from RAW Art Works, Laura Smith-Centeno, Rosario Ubiera-Minaya, Mariah Neuroth. Formerly at WBUR and now in Texas at Report for America, Cristela Guerra. Arts Connect International mica rose. Double Edge Theatre Travis Coe. Think Outside the Vox Christopher and Aimee Robinson, Ingrid O’Dell, Maria Hendricks, Kristin Johnson, Sam Gould, Olivia Reinebach, and ASL/English interpreters Shonnese Devon Grant and Rae Heller.

National Arts Strategies

Funders & Professional DevelopmentPartnershipsTrainings & Community Impact
Vox was thrilled to participate in NAS’ The Project, an 18-month professional development program for arts organizations committed to systems change. We consulted on accessibility for the 4-day convening in Arizona and delivered purple power through roundtable conversations, storyboarding and storytelling. We have also partnered with NAS to deliver accessibility …
Tanja and Olivia presenting at ABLE.

VOX at ABLE Assembly – Berklee College of Music

EducationTrainings & Community Impact
Vox’s Marketing & Communications Manager Olivia Reinebach and Vox consultant and Braille/AD Expert Tanja Milojevic presented a lightning talk about Accessible Marketing & Social Media at ABLE Assembly. An expanded version for Mosaic Lowell with a Transcript is available …