[Community-Service] Meet a Community Achiever: Elizabeth Rouse - Blind Equality Achievement Month Day 16!

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*Welcome to Blind Equality Achievement Month! *

A young Community Achiever rising to the top! Our sixteenth day spotlights,
Elizabeth Rouse from Iowa.
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Image Description: Elizabeth sits on a set of steps. Her legs are crossed,
and she smiles into the camera, wearing a black cardigan over a colorful
tank top and a pair of white pants.



Elizabeth is an active Federationist and a national scholarship recipient!
She has served in many roles such as a national student division board
member and officer, national student division committee chair and co-chair,
state student division president, and state committee co-chair. She has
also participated in Washington seminars as a member of the Iowa affiliate,
her home state, were they worked hard to rally support for many of the
NFB’s legislative priorities. Being a part of those rallies became very
important to her and is an annual event that she has become passionate
about. Elizabeth is also a recent graduate of Central College, a private
university in Pella, Iowa, where she earned her Bachelor of Arts degrees in
both English and Theatre.

More recently, Elizabeth moved from Louisiana, where she completed her
nonvisual skills training at the Louisiana Center for the Blind, to south
Carolina.  She is working as a Transition Specialist for Successful
Transitions. It’s a youth transition program that is run under the NFB
South Carolina affiliate. They are truly dedicated in empowering blind
students between the ages of 13 to 21, with skills in self-advocacy, job
readiness, and post-secondary exploration.

Even though most of her involvement has circulated around the National
Association of Blind Students, many realms of the NFB are becoming more
relevant to Elizabeth’s life each day as she becomes a more active
affiliate member. She loves working alongside other leaders to empower
youth to step into roles in which they can not only succeed, but also excel.

Elizabeth embraces the reality that together, we can change what it means
to be blind. She leans on her Federation family for support through every
rise and fall in her life. She also desires to continue to serve her
community in this supporting role, for her mentors and mentees both in and
out of the Federation.

In her heart of hearts, she understands that she would not be the confident
and independent woman she is today without the resources she accumulated in
the NFB. It is her hope to give back to her students in the forms of
similar entities, which she considers herself lucky to have encountered
inside our organization.

Show some love for our young achiever!

#BEAM
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