[Home-on-the-range] An article from www.kansas.com

[Susan Tabor]

Hi, Dianne:

 

How neat! It would be great to have her at the Convention! When I read the
article, I wondered if she'd been one of our scholarship winners. She was
talking like a Federationist!

Susan

 

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Good morning all - Alight was at the NFB convention in Orlando this pastt
July. Jack and I were just finalizing a purchase with Freedom Scientific
when he said the table next to this, is the FBI's. I had mentioned earlier
to him that I wondered why the FBI was here in the exhibit hall and had not
been successful in locating their table thus far. It was nearly 5 PM,
closing time for the hall and a young woman using a guide dog was leaving
from behind her information table. I asked her if she was with the FBI and
she said she was. We discussed what she did with them and that the FBI had
had a table at the convention for several years posting  options for
jobs...We got to talking about where we both were from and found out that we
were both from Wichita...I then asked her name and she said Alight...I knew
than that she was a former recipient of an NFB Kansas scholarship. I told
her I had called her home a few years ago and talked to her dad about how
she was doing at Rice University, Texas. He had said she was doing
great...she laughed and said her dad was really proud of her. Another woman
came up next to her introducing herself as a Special Agent with the FBI out
of Tampa, Florida. She said Alight was doing great work with the FBI...I
said that the fall state convention being held in Wichita was focused on
employment. I wondered if there was anyway Alight might be able to
present...she said we could make a written request and this might be
possible- wouldn't that be great! Alysha then came to the Kansas affilitate
the next afternoon and visited with myself, Tom and Donna- I'm thinking her
degree was in Physics- very sharp cookie- hope we can work with her and the
FBI on jobs that are none traditional for anyone, much less the blind.
Dianne                      

On Aug 7, 2011, at 11:25 PM, Floyd wrote:





Floyd has sent you the following story:

Another sicess story from the NFB of Ks.

 

 <http://www.kansas.com/?story_link=email_msg> 

Posted on Sunday, Aug. 07, 2011

 

Blind West High grad speaks at White House

By ANNIE CALOVICH 

 

Sighted people may not think they understand Alysha Jeans, blind from birth,
but she seems to understand them all right. Jeans, a 2006 West High School
graduate, got to speak at the White House last month at a celebration
marking the 21st anniversary of the Americans With Disabilities Act. She
followed Education Secretary Arne Duncan and Tina Tchen, chief of staff for
the first lady. And she told the audience of government officials and
interns that there is a tremendous depth to people that doesn't always meet
the eye.

"I'm totally blind. I was born blind. And I said that I think a lot of
people have never even met a person with a disability or interacted with
them, so they don't understand the capabilities," Jeans said in a phone call
from her home in Vienna, Va., recalling her speech. 

She is 23 years old and one year into a job with the FBI in Quantico, Va.,
working in forensic audio analysis.

 

Read More...
<http://www.kansas.com/2011/08/07/1964906/blind-west-high-grad-speaks-at.htm
l?story_link=email_msg> 

 

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