Tom Perez: An inspirational Veteran, High Tech Diversity Advocate and Blind Tandem Stoker

Tom is a Veteran who received multiple blunt force traumas to his eyes during his boxing career at West Point. He never realized the impact of these traumatic brain injuries until many years later as his vision grew worse. He continued to pursue his career in the early tech industry and developed multiple diversity support systems and recruitment processes to bring more people of color into the field of technology. Tom's continuing vision loss has gotten worse and eventually after 30 years he was diagnosed with blindness, but with the help of the Western Blind Rehabilitation at the Veterans Administration he challenged his disability and embraced his love for cycling to become a competitive blind tandem stoker.

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Tom is a Veteran who received multiple blunt force traumas to his eyes during his boxing career at West Point. He never realized the impact of these traumatic brain injuries till many years later as his vision was getting worse.

Tom became a high tech diversity expert and helped multiple high tech companies recruit people of color in the early years of high tech development

Although Tom notice his continued vision loss he had no idea that is was caused by his time at West Point. When he was diagnosed with vision loss and eventually blindness, he went through a challenging time in his life and did not think he could anything being blind. With the help of the Western Blind Rehabilitation Center at the Veterans Administration, they helped him restore his hope and confidence. The center encouraged him to continue his love of cycling by becoming a tandem stoker. Today he is a competitive tandem stoker and is riding in October for the Million Dollar Challenge with the Challenged Athlete Foundation.org to raise millions of dollars for the Challenged Athletes.

Tom is a Veteran who received multiple blunt force traumas to his eyes during his boxing career at West Point. He never realized the impact of these traumatic brain injuries till many years later as his vision was getting worse.

Tom became a high tech diversity expert and helped multiple high tech companies recruit people of color in the early years of high tech development

Although Tom notice his continued vision loss he had no idea that is was caused by his time at West Point. When he was diagnosed with vision loss and eventually blindness, he went through a challenging time in his life and did not think he could anything being blind. With the help of the Western Blind Rehabilitation Center at the Veterans Administration, they helped him restore his hope and confidence. The center encouraged him to continue his love of cycling by becoming a tandem stoker. Today he is a competitive tandem stoker and is riding in October for the Million Dollar Challenge with the Challenged Athlete Foundation.org to raise millions of dollars for the Challenged Athletes.