Walk In The Light: The Story of a Blind Hero (Beauty for Ashes)

Walk In The Light: The Story of a Blind Hero (Beauty for Ashes)

Walk In The Light tells the story of the Oklahoma City Bombing through the eyes of a blind hero, Raymond Washburn, who led 5 people to safety in the treacherous event. Raymond recounts his perspective to his precocious, eight year-old granddaughter, Aiyana, and uses his story to teach Aiyana to embrace her Native American heritage and to shine her own light into the world. Princella Smith is a screenwriter and film director. She is the author of Walk In The Light, a children's book based on her animated, short film by the same name about a blind hero of the Oklahoma City Bombing. Princella wrote, directed, and produced Walk In The Light. It is currently still in the film festival circuit, and it has been nominated for "Outstanding Animated Short Film" at the NAACP Image Awards.Princella is a Boston / New England Regional Emmy nominee garnering recognition for "Best Director" for a Public Service Announcement about PTSD in first responders titled "The World Watched." She is also the creator and co-author of the Beauty for Ashes Book Series about survivors and first responders of the Oklahoma City Bombing.