[Community-Service] Meet a Community Achiever: Emily Gindlesperger - Blind Equality Achievement Month Day 27 @CSD!

[Adrienne Nelson]

On Wed, Oct 27, 2021 at 11:28 AM Cheryl Fields via Community-Service <
community-service at nfbnet.org> wrote:

> Awesome! Keep getting in that good trouble!
>
> Cheryl E. Fields
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> Sent from my iPhone
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> On Oct 27, 2021, at 10:02 AM, Stacie Leap via Community-Service <
> community-service at nfbnet.org> wrote:
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> Welcome to Blind Equality Achievement Month!
>
> Podium or not, she will fight for her rights! Meet our 27th Community
> Achiever, Emily W. Gindlesperger from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania!
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> My life has always been centered around volunteering and non-profit work.
> Growing up I never had a paying job in high school, but always volunteered
> in the local Meals On Wheels kitchen, other soup kitchens, and other church
> activities.  I was a store manager for a brief time, before returning to
> non-profit and being the office manager for a local hospital.  I had two
> children in two years, and which point I left my position to be a
> stay-at-home mother a few months before my daughter was born.  She was born
> with a rare eye condition leaving her totally blind and me on my way to
> joining the National Federation of the Blind.
>
> In 2008, I reached out to Jim Antonacci and was referred for the Parent
> Leadership Program of the National Organization of Parents of Blind
> Children.  I spent my first convention in Detroit and then my first
> Washington Seminar in 2009 and there has been no turning back.  Though I
> had done some policy work at my office job, and subsequent community
> boards, being in Washington DC and being part of the organized blind
> movement changed me.
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> I was given the continued support of Mr. Antonacci and now President Lynn
> Heitz to continue my work reaching out to our Federal Representatives,
> meeting with them and working with National to form relationships and
> support for our movement.
>
> The new level of state engagement has provided an appointment for me on
> the state advisory committee for the education of children with blindness
> and visual impairment.  In order to solidify my commitment and my future
> with the Federation and its movement, I will be starting my master’s
> program in government, a concentration in Law and Public Policy in January
> 2022.
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> She is Emily Gindlesperger, second Vice President of the Pennsylvania
> state affiliate, Legislative Director for NFB Pennsylvania, and a
> monumental contributor to the blind movement!
> #BEAM
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Mrs. Cheryl you have that passion and fire to fight for what you believe in
and to desire better for everyone’s needs.  To God be the glory as He is
elevating your life and position. I believe you shall excel in your studies
with high honors.
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