[Community-service] Board Member Spotlight

[Jeanetta price]

BOARD MEMBER SPOTLIGHT: 

Christine Parsons - Board Member 1

Chris Parsons is from Colorado and works as a technology instructor at the Colorado Center for the Blind. Her family learned about the NFB when she was young, but she didn’t really become involved in the Federation until she attended National Convention in 2009 as part of the College Leadership Program. At that convention, she also got involved in building what eventually became the Community Service Division. Chris has participated in a variety of service projects, including setting up tables and items at Toys for Tots, planting seedlings at a nursery, tutoring at a local elementary school, putting together linen rolls at a food bank, brailling children’s books, and picking up trash along a highway. She loves helping people and giving back; however, she has always been a bit intimidated when it comes to jumping in and getting involved in a project, and she is admittedly not always sure where to begin. For this reason, she finds the Community Service Division particularly important as a network of resources and ideas and also a source of encouragement and support for blind people with all types of service experience. She feels that it is essential to meet people where they are in their service experience and help them to find projects that both interest them and challenge their and society’s beliefs about the capacity of blind people.
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