From printed information to physical space, the Media and Accessible Design Lab (MAD Lab) at Lighthouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired specializes in making the visual tactile and turning inaccessible experiences into inclusive ones. We are a team of designers and consultants specializing in braille, tactile maps, accessible venues and alternative media of many formats. Our overarching mission is to make visual information accessible to people who are blind and visually impaired.

Since 1982, Support for Families of Children with Disabilities has offered information, education, and parent-to-parent support free of charge to families and professionals of children with any kind of disability or special health care need in San Francisco. 

A Bay Area native, Antoine Hunter is an award-winning internationally known African American Deaf choreographer, dancer, instructor, speaker and Deaf advocate who performs throughout the Bay Area and the world including Europe, Africa and South America. He is former president of Bay Area Black Deaf Advocates and Director-at-Large for Northern California Association of the Deaf. Hunter actively supports DeafHope, an organization whose mission is to end domestic and sexual violence in Deaf communities through empowerment and education. He teaches dance and ASL in both Hearing and Deaf communities, and is the founder/artistic director of Urban Jazz Dance Company. Since 2013, Hunter has been producing the Bay Area International Deaf Dance Festival, which was awarded an Isadora Duncan (Izzie) Award in 2018. His projects have been awarded funding by CA$H Theater Bay Area, the Zellerbach Family Foundation, California Arts Council and SF Arts Commission.

A San Francisco native and Deaf from birth, Zahna Simon is a professional dancer, chemist, avid health nutritionist, researcher, ASL performance consultant, Deaf advocate and Deaf interpreter. She is a former chemist by day at Vertex Pharmaceuticals and dancer by night at various Dance companies in San Diego including being featured in KPBS TV and Radio special "Deaf Dancer Performs in Trolley Dances. Simon is now the Assistant Director for both Urban Jazz Dance Company and the Bay Area International Deaf Dance Festival under Antoine Hunter, Founder and Director, and a full time office manager at a small Fiduciary Office in San Francisco.

Leah Mendelson is a native of Israel, a traveler and explorer of arts and the world. Her artistic vision is one of communication, both verbal and non-verbal, and it has brought her to visit many countries and explore cities all over the world. Mendelson has from an early age been an ambassador for the Deaf, speaking to the press as a young dancer in the Bat-Kol dance group for Deaf and hearing youth dancers, lecturing in schools and conferences to raise awareness for the Deaf community in Israel, where she grew up, and simply in her way, everyday, ready to communicate and connect. All the varied and rich experiences- majority in dance in high school, as an actress in the Be'er Sheva Theatre, as a student of circus arts at Sandciel, as an avid swing dancer in Tel Aviv, have connected her to people through joy and movement. A significant part of this life process has been in the water as a certified Waterdance and Watsu therapist. The Urban Jazz Dance Company is a new and welcoming home for Mendelson—professional dance, joy, communicating with the audience and getting an important message out there.

Linda Steele II formally trained at Marin Ballet before receiving her BFA from Alonzo King LINES Ballet/Dominican University of California. She is very honored to have met and worked with amazing artists such as Alonzo King, Drew Jacoby, Maurice Causey, Gregory Dawson, Maurya Kerr's tinypistol, Sidra Bell, Katie Faulkner, Amy Seiwert LEVYdance and recently with My-Linh Le's Mud Water Theater, Inside Out Contemporary Ballet, Antoine Hunter, Labayen Dance/SF and Anandha Ray, among others. She has choreographed and performed abroad in Europe with Corina Kinnear, MADE in France and others.

C.K.Itamura is the Creative Director of Phineas & Company, the Founder of the Book Arts Roadshow Project and an artist member of The Center for Book Arts.

Cristian Rosas is an adventurous young man who enjoys music, dancing, and outdoor activities. He likes snow skiing, playing baseball, and loves to go surfing every summer. He participates in the group Building Communities Through Alternative Communication (BCTAC) where he educates others about his use of a high tech communication device as he is unable to speak. He currently participates at Ability Now, an adult program in Oakland, CA and gives presentations at conferences about his life experience using augmentative and alternative communication.

San Francisco SPCA's Puppy Dog Tales Reading (PDT) Program promotes literacy in at-risk youth populations and works closely with school and library staff to stimulate a love of reading in children. Reading to an adult may seem overwhelming, so participants in this program read to therapy dogs. Reading becomes a sustained, individual activity that children eagerly anticipate. 

The Green Bookmobile runs on 20 percent biodiesel and is specially equipped with 4 solar panels, Fantastic Vents for green AC, skylights for natural light, sustainably forested wood, recycled content in carpet, and a hybrid generator (turning off when fully charged and back on when charge gets low). It has a special Green Stacks collection as well as a variety of juvenile, teen, and adult materials available for check out with an San Francisco Public Library card. The mobile library is able to circulate materials, create library cards, and provide the public with information about library services and programs.

PJ Library® sends free, award-winning books that celebrate Jewish values and culture to families with children six months through eight years old.