[NFBF-Tampa] Announcing the 2022 washington Seminar - We're going hybrid and we'll need your help!

Tue Dec 14 12:14:10 UTC 2021

Please see the below email from Russ Davis, I hope that there will be many people from the Tampa Chapter that will assist us virtually in this year‘s Washington seminar.

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Miranda b. Kilby
Ph: (352)942-0417

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> From: Russell Davis via NFBF-Leaders <nfbf-leaders at nfbnet.org>
> Date: December 12, 2021 at 7:22:16 AM EST
> To: nfbf-l at nfbnet.org, nfbf-leaders at nfbnet.org
> Cc: Russell Davis <russell at radiorusty.com>
> Subject: [NFBF-Leaders] Anouncing the 2022 washington Seminar - We're going hybrid and we'll need your help!
> Reply-To: NFB of Florida List for Leaders <nfbf-leaders at nfbnet.org>
> 
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> Attention Chapter and Division Presidents, please forward this email to your members, as some of them may not be part of our email lists. Thanks you
>  
> Good morning Florida Federation Family!
>  
> I am very pleased to tell you that details about our 2022 Washington Seminar have been announced and plans are moving forward to carry out one of the most exciting Seminars ever.
>  
> Every year members of the National Federation of the Blind gather together in order to place before our members of Congress critically important legislative priorities which,  if passed into law), would advance the lives of blind Americans. For decades Floridians and other Federationist would travel to Washington DC to meet with House and Senate members, but in 2021 due to the COVID-19 outbreak we took a dramatically different approach and conducted our business from our homes. I am so proud that  65 different Floridians were involved in the 29 different meetings held early in the year. For 2022, it has been announced that our Washington Seminar will take another new approach. The Seminar will use a hybrid format in order to successfully complete our goal of meeting with our 27 House members and 2 Senators.
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> During the 2022 Washington Seminar, which will take place February 7th through the 9th, a small delegation from Florida will travel to Washington DC for a select group of in person meetings, while many of us will meet virtually with other Representatives. Both of these teams are truly important  to our mission and neither one is more important than the other. The reason for the much smaller than normal delegation traveling north to chilly Washington is due to, as you might suspect, social distancing constraints and continued concerns about the ongoing COVID situation. We believe that there will be some offices in DC still not allowing in person meetings.
>  
> Your Affiliate Board has selected the following individuals to be part of the in-person delegation for 2022. Please join me in congratulating:
> Karolyn Campbell, (Central Florida Chapter)
> Z’leah Liburd, Tampa Chapter and Florida Association of Blind Students
> Adriann Keve, Jacksonville Chapter
> Doug Ingram, Tallahassee Chapter.
>  
> These members will be accompanied by Florida Legislative Directors, Russ Davis and Camille Tate.
>  
> We will be meeting frequently with the in-person delegation and with the entire Affiliate over the next several months to prepare for the 2022 Washington Seminar and in fact our first meeting with all interested in being part of the big event will take place on Monday, December 20th at 8:00 PM. Look for a Zoom meeting invitation and link soon.
>  
> One final important piece of information that I am happy to share with you all is that, the list of Legislative priorities has been announced by our national office. We will be presenting the following four initiatives to our elected members of Congress:
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> Access Technology Affordability Act (H.R. 431/S. 212)
> Medical Device Nonvisual Accessibility Act (H.R. 4853)
> Twenty-First Century Website and Application Accessibility Act
> Transformation to Competitive Integrated Employment Act (H.R. 2373/S. 3238)
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> For those who have been attending our regular Legislative Committee meetings throughout 2021, you already will be familiar with all of these priorities. We will continue to review them in detail though as we move closer to Seminar, so stay tuned.
>  
> Thank you all so much for taking the time to read this information packed email and I very much look forward to working with each of you as we get ready for February and beyond. Hope to see everyone on Monday, December 20th at 8:00 PM.
>  
> Respectfully,
>  
> Russ Davis,
> Legislative Director, National Federation of the Blind of Florida
> Ph. 904-993-8433
> Email: Russell at radiorusty.com
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