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

[Adrienne Nelson]

On Sat, Oct 16, 2021 at 10:06 AM Stacie Leap via Community-Service <
community-service at nfbnet.org> wrote:

> *Welcome to Blind Equality Achievement Month! *
>
> A young Community Achiever rising to the top! Our sixteenth day
> spotlights, Elizabeth Rouse from Iowa.
> [image: 16. Elizabeth Rouse PNG.PNG]
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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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Show some love for our young achiever!
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> #BEAM
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congratulations Elizabeth you are an amazing blessing to the young people.
Keep up the great work and continue your life of achievements and
accomplishment of desires🎉🎉🎉.

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