<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">No one can deny that Elizabeth is OUTTA SIGHT! Thank you for your service within the Federation. I am truly inspired by your passion to give back to the youth so that they can live the life they want. <div><br><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Oct 16, 2021, at 3:48 PM, Adrienne Nelson Gtc via Community-Service <community-service@nfbnet.org> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Oct 16, 2021 at 10:06 AM Stacie Leap via Community-Service <<a href="mailto:community-service@nfbnet.org">community-service@nfbnet.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)" dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Welcome to Blind Equality Achievement Month! </b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">A young Community Achiever rising to the top! Our sixteenth day spotlights, Elizabeth Rouse from Iowa.</p><div><16. Elizabeth Rouse PNG.PNG></div><br><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">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.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">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.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">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.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">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.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">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.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">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.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Show some love for our young achiever!</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">#BEAM</p></div><div><div dir="ltr" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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