Meet Ryan Knighton – Solutions in Sight Panelist

Ryan Knighton
Author, Screenwriter, and Speaker

Ryan Knighton is an internationally acclaimed author, screenwriter and performer. His memoirs, Cockeyed and C’mon Papa, received many award nominations, including the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour and the Evergreen Prize. He has been a frequent contributor to NPR’s This American Life and The Moth, and has written for The New York Times, Outside, Esquire, The Globe and Mail, The Believer, Popular Mechanics, Men’s Health, Afar, Salon, and many others. His journalism has earned him a National Magazine Award nomination and the Thomas-Lowell Travel Writing Award. He is also a Sundance Lab screenwriting fellow and the recipient of the 2009 Alfred Sloan Prize from the Tribecca Film Institute. Most recently, Ryan has written films for Universal Studios and 20th Century Fox, as well as a TV pilot for FX. Ryan has been blind for most of his life.

Hear Ryan’s appearances on NPR’s The Moth.

Read Ryan’s piece in the New York Times, “Seeing the World Through My Wife’s Eyes”.

Learn about the other thought leaders and innovators serving as panelists at the Solutions in Sight Summit here.