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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b>From:</b> Rush, Denise [mailto:DRush@steptoe.com] <br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, April 16, 2020 8:36 AM<br><b>To:</b> atorres@torresfoundation.org; Debbie Brown (deborahb14@verizon.net) <deborahb14@verizon.net><br><b>Subject:</b> FW: <External>Former AAC member passing notification<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b>From:</b> pposner@comcast.net <pposner@comcast.net> <br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, April 15, 2020 2:11 PM<br><b>To:</b> mkm1mary@yahoo.com; cblake@wmata.com; blkteachmd@aol.com; Sharma, Anu C. <acsharma@wmata.com>; elarsy@hotmail.com; darnise.bush@dc.gov; fcalabia36@gmail.com; coneyshomesolutions@gmail.com; ccrawford@rcn.com; rdancy82@gmail.com; melanie.jackson@ymail.com; zzask@yahoo.com; pkmezile@rcn.com; anthony.oberg@gmail.com; DorisR@ecnv.org; Rush, Denise <DRush@steptoe.com>; Patrick, Sheehan <pat.sheehan1@verizon.net>; kelley.simoneaux@gmail.com; colesve@comcast.net<br><b>Cc:</b> Hill, Kiano A. <KAHill1@wmata.com>; Lopez, Carol P. <cplopez@wmata.com>; Anderson, Allison M. <amanderson@wmata.com><br><b>Subject:</b> RE: <External>Former AAC member passing notification<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333'>We all will miss Brian and all he contributed, it was a short but effective life helping others while taking time to enjoy. <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333'>It was a joy and a privilege to have known him. <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333'>In case you don't have access, I have pasted the Wash Post article below: <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333'><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/"><span style='background:white'>Education</span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span class=font-xxxs><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333'>Add to list</span></span><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><h1><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333'>Brian Miller, whose blindness inspired a career helping disabled students, dies of covid-19<o:p></o:p></span></h1></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333'>Brian R. Miller, who was blind and worked to help students with disabilities, died at age 52 on April 13, 2020, of complications of covid-19. He is shown on a visit to Oman. (Family photo) <o:p></o:p></span></p><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333'>By <o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333'><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/hannah-natanson/"><span class=author-name>Hannah Natanson</span></a> <span class=gray-dark> </span> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333'>April 14, 2020 at 7:39 p.m. EDT <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333'>With high school graduation just weeks away, Brian R. Miller’s science teacher delivered a stark message to Miller’s mother: Her son had failed to finish his microscope work. He was going to flunk science. <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333'>“</span><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333'> </span><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333'>‘His microscope work?’</span><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333'> </span><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333'>” Miller’s mother, Jane McGinnis, repeated, disbelieving. “What do you mean ‘his microscope work’? He’s blind!” <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333'>Miller was born with defective retinas, McGinnis said, and could barely see large text inches from his face, let alone cellular details. But as a public-school student in California in the 1970s and 1980s — among the first wave of blind students to sit in classrooms alongside the sighted — Miller had vowed that his disability would not hold him back. <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333'>Unable to see what teachers were writing on the board, Miller memorized the content of every lesson beforehand, his mother said. That way, when called on, her son could give answers just like his peers. <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333'>“I am sure there were times when he was frustrated,” McGinnis said, “but there was nothing that would stop him from doing anything he wanted to. He just did it.” <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333'>That determination led to a career with the U.S. Education Department’s Rehabilitation Services Administration — where he helped students with disabilities like his — and to a <strong><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'> </span></strong>rich and busy life filled with friends and travel. Both were cut <strong><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'> </span></strong>short Monday when Miller, who lived in Alexandria, died of complications of covid-19, the disease caused by the novel <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/02/28/what-you-need-know-about-coronavirus/?tid=lk_inline_manual_9&itid=lk_inline_manual_9">coronavirus</a>. He was 52 and otherwise healthy, his mother said. <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333'>Miller started having symptoms, including a fever and cough, in mid-March, shortly after returning from a trip to Jordan that was curtailed by the virus. Miller’s doctor at first told him to hunker down and wait out the illness at home, but his condition kept deteriorating, his mother said. He entered the hospital March 28, was put on a ventilator the next day and died Monday after he began bleeding internally and suffered organ failure. <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333'>In the hours since, tributes from Miller’s friends and colleagues have flooded Facebook and McGinnis’s phone, she said. Everyone is eager to tell her how many lives Miller shaped, how many blind students her son uplifted. <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333'>On Tuesday morning, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos phoned McGinnis to offer her condolences and to thank her for Miller’s service. <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333'>In a message to department staff, Miller’s direct supervisor, Carol Dobak, praised his lifetime spent in service of those with disabilities. <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333'>“Brian believed strongly in the capacity of individuals with disabilities to engage in all aspects of life,” Dobak wrote, “and his own life was a reflection of this philosophy.” <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333'>That started in grade school, McGinnis said, when she and her son confronted a system ill-equipped to serve the blind. She remembers endless battles to secure accommodations her son needed: extra-large computer screens, special TVs, books in Braille. She remembers, too, his listening to audiobooks late into the night, and his unwavering love of learning — especially history. <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333'>“All during school, they seemed to feel, ‘Why would a blind person need a degree?’ ” McGinnis said. “His thought, of course, was that he needs it even more.” <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333'>Miller in high school. His work with the U.S. Education Department helping students with disabilities was inspired by his own experience as a blind student. (Family photo) <o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333'>Despite the science teacher’s worry, Miller graduated from high school, earned a degree in political science from San Diego State University and got a master’s and a PhD in history from the University of Iowa. <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333'>McGinnis keeps a blue, bound copy of her son’s 471-page dissertation, “Speaking for Themselves: The Blind Civil Rights Movement and the Battle for the Iowa Braille School,” on a living room coffee table in her Michigan home. As she used to tell her son: It’s too heavy to hang on the refrigerator. <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333'>Despite Miller’s eventual academic success, he never forgot his earlier struggles. That’s why he wanted to work for the Education Department, his mother said. <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333'>“Some of the programs we were petitioning,” she said, “are now the very programs he was overseeing in his position with the department.” <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333'>An avid singer since high school, he joined the a cappella group the Alexandria Harmonizers, performing in places including Scotland, China and Normandy. And he traveled as often as he could. He was fluent in four languages, including Spanish, Russian and German, and tried to visit five new countries each year. He made lists of every place he traveled, every airline he flew and every famous site he saw. He hoped eventually to set foot in more than 100 countries; by the time he died, he had visited at least 65 countries on six continents, he wrote online. <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333'>Miller, who loved traveling, wrote that it was impossible to visit every place worth visiting in just one lifetime. (Family photo) <o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333'>“Nothing would stop him,” McGinnis said, “except this stupid covid-19.” <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333'>Miller had recently launched <a href="https://blindtravelersnetwork.org/author/brianrmiller/">a blog providing tips to other blind travelers</a>. One article detailed must-have items: a spare white cane, Braille playing cards, a travel pack of wet wipes. In another, published April 13, he wrote of his desire to live “a good long life.” <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333'>“There are more places to visit than one can ever hope to get to in one lifetime,” he wrote. “Beyond the mountains are more mountains.” <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333'>Phil <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div><div><p>P.Posner,Ph.D.<br>901 North Monroe St<br>apt 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src="cid:image001.jpg@01D613E8.E0E78CE0" alt="Image removed by sender. Brian R. Miller, who was blind and worked to help students with disabilities, died at age 52 on April 13, 2020, of complications of covid-19. He is shown on a visit to Oman."></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Brian R. Miller, who was blind and worked to help students with disabilities, died at age 52 on April 13, 2020, of complications of covid-19. He is shown on a visit to Oman. (Family photo) <o:p></o:p></span></p><div style='margin-bottom:.25in'><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#666666'>By <o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#666666'><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/hannah-natanson/"><span class=ox-ebcf093d7a-author-name><b><span style='color:#1955A5'>Hannah Natanson</span></b></span></a> <span class=ox-ebcf093d7a-gray-dark> </span> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div><div style='margin-bottom:.25in'><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#666666'>April 14, 2020 at 7:39 p.m. EDT <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div><div><div><p class=ox-ebcf093d7a-font--body style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#2A2A2A'>With high school graduation just weeks away, Brian R. Miller’s science teacher delivered a stark message to Miller’s mother: Her son had failed to finish his microscope work. He was going to flunk science.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=ox-ebcf093d7a-font--body style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#2A2A2A'>“</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#2A2A2A'> </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#2A2A2A'>‘His microscope work?’</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#2A2A2A'> </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#2A2A2A'>” Miller’s mother, Jane McGinnis, repeated, disbelieving. “What do you mean ‘his microscope work’? He’s blind!”<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div><div><p class=ox-ebcf093d7a-font--body style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#2A2A2A'>Miller was born with defective retinas, McGinnis said, and could barely see large text inches from his face, let alone cellular details. But as a public-school student in California in the 1970s and 1980s — among the first wave of blind students to sit in classrooms alongside the sighted — Miller had vowed that his disability would not hold him back.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><div style='margin-left:24.0pt;margin-top:3.0pt;margin-right:24.0pt;margin-bottom:3.0pt;min-height: 250px'><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:#F7F7F7'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>AD <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:#F7F7F7'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div><div><p class=ox-ebcf093d7a-font--body style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#2A2A2A'>Unable to see what teachers were writing on the board, Miller memorized the content of every lesson beforehand, his mother said. That way, when called on, her son could give answers just like his peers.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=ox-ebcf093d7a-font--body style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#2A2A2A'>“I am sure there were times when he was frustrated,” McGinnis said, “but there was nothing that would stop him from doing anything he wanted to. He just did it.”<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=ox-ebcf093d7a-font--body style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#2A2A2A'>That determination led to a career with the U.S. Education Department’s Rehabilitation Services Administration — where he helped students with disabilities like his — and to a<strong><span style='font-family:"Georgia",serif'> </span></strong>rich and busy life filled with friends and travel. Both were cutshort Monday when Miller, who lived in Alexandria, died of complications of covid-19, the disease caused by the novel <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/02/28/what-you-need-know-about-coronavirus/?tid=lk_inline_manual_9&itid=lk_inline_manual_9" target="_blank"><span style='color:#1955A5'>coronavirus</span></a>. He was 52 and otherwise healthy, his mother said.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><div style='margin-left:24.0pt;margin-top:3.0pt;margin-right:24.0pt;margin-bottom:3.0pt;min-height: 250px'><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:#F7F7F7'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>AD <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:#F7F7F7'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div><div><p class=ox-ebcf093d7a-font--body style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:.25in;margin-left:0in'><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif'><a href="https://subscribe.washingtonpost.com/newsletters/#/bundle/health?method=SURL&location=ART_IS&tid=lk_interstitial_manual_11&itid=lk_interstitial_manual_11"><span style='color:#1955A5'>Sign up for our Coronavirus Updates newsletter to track the outbreak. All stories linked in the newsletter are free to access.</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></i></p></div><div><p class=ox-ebcf093d7a-font--body style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#2A2A2A'>Miller started having symptoms, including a fever and cough, in mid-March, shortly after returning from a trip to Jordan that was curtailed by the virus. Miller’s doctor at first told him to hunker down and wait out the illness at home, but his condition kept deteriorating, his mother said. He entered the hospital March 28, was put on a ventilator the next day and died Monday after he began bleeding internally and suffered organ failure.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=ox-ebcf093d7a-font--body style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#2A2A2A'>In the hours since, tributes from Miller’s friends and colleagues have flooded Facebook and McGinnis’s phone, she said. Everyone is eager to tell her how many lives Miller shaped, how many blind students her son uplifted.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=ox-ebcf093d7a-font--body style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#2A2A2A'>On Tuesday morning, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos phoned McGinnis to offer her condolences and to thank her for Miller’s service.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><div style='margin-left:24.0pt;margin-top:3.0pt;margin-right:24.0pt;margin-bottom:3.0pt;min-height: 250px'><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:#F7F7F7'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>AD <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:#F7F7F7'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div><div><p class=ox-ebcf093d7a-font--body style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#2A2A2A'>In a message to department staff, Miller’s direct supervisor, Carol Dobak, praised his lifetime spent in service of those with disabilities.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=ox-ebcf093d7a-font--body style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#2A2A2A'>“Brian believed strongly in the capacity of individuals with disabilities to engage in all aspects of life,” Dobak wrote, “and his own life was a reflection of this philosophy.”<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=ox-ebcf093d7a-font--body style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#2A2A2A'>That started in grade school, McGinnis said, when she and her son confronted a system ill-equipped to serve the blind. She remembers endless battles to secure accommodations her son needed: extra-large computer screens, special TVs, books in Braille. She remembers, too, his listening to audiobooks late into the night, and his unwavering love of learning — especially history.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=ox-ebcf093d7a-font--body style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#2A2A2A'>“All during school, they seemed to feel, ‘Why would a blind person need a degree?’ ” McGinnis said. “His thought, of course, was that he needs it even more.”<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div><p class=ox-ebcf093d7a-font--body style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#2A2A2A'>Despite the science teacher’s worry, Miller graduated from high school, earned a degree in political science from San Diego State University and got a master’s and a PhD in history from the University of Iowa.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><div style='margin-left:24.0pt;margin-top:3.0pt;margin-right:24.0pt;margin-bottom:3.0pt;min-height: 250px'><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:#F7F7F7'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>AD <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:#F7F7F7'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div><div><p class=ox-ebcf093d7a-font--body style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#2A2A2A'>McGinnis keeps a blue, bound copy of her son’s 471-page dissertation, “Speaking for Themselves: The Blind Civil Rights Movement and the Battle for the Iowa Braille School,” on a living room coffee table in her Michigan home. As she used to tell her son: It’s too heavy to hang on the refrigerator.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=ox-ebcf093d7a-font--body style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#2A2A2A'>Despite Miller’s eventual academic success, he never forgot his earlier struggles. That’s why he wanted to work for the Education Department, his mother said.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=ox-ebcf093d7a-font--body style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#2A2A2A'>“Some of the programs we were petitioning,” she said, “are now the very programs he was overseeing in his position with the department.”<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=ox-ebcf093d7a-font--body style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#2A2A2A'>An avid singer since high school, he joined the a cappella group the Alexandria Harmonizers, performing in places including Scotland, China and Normandy. And he traveled as often as he could. He was fluent in four languages, including Spanish, Russian and German, and tried to visit five new countries each year. He made lists of every place he traveled, every airline he flew and every famous site he saw. He hoped eventually to set foot in more than 100 countries; by the time he died, he had visited at least 65 countries on six continents, he wrote online.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div><p class=ox-ebcf093d7a-font--body style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#2A2A2A'>“Nothing would stop him,” McGinnis said, “except this stupid covid-19.”<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><div style='margin-left:24.0pt;margin-top:3.0pt;margin-right:24.0pt;margin-bottom:3.0pt;min-height: 250px'><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:#F7F7F7'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>AD <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:#F7F7F7'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div><div><p class=ox-ebcf093d7a-font--body style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#2A2A2A'>Miller had recently launched <a href="https://blindtravelersnetwork.org/author/brianrmiller/"><span style='color:#1955A5'>a blog providing tips to other blind travelers</span></a>. 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style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div id="ox-ebcf093d7a-ymail_android_signature"><p class=MsoNormal><a href="https://go.onelink.me/107872968?pid=InProduct&c=Global_Internal_YGrowth_AndroidEmailSig__AndroidUsers&af_wl=ym&af_sub1=Internal&af_sub2=Global_YGrowth&af_sub3=EmailSignature">Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android</a> <o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#6D00F6'>On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 10:31 AM, Blake, Christiaan P. <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#6D00F6'><<a href="mailto:cblake@wmata.com">cblake@wmata.com</a>> wrote: <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div style='border:none;border-left:solid #6D00F6 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 15.0pt;margin-top:7.5pt'><div id=ox-ebcf093d7a-yiv4262301497><div><div><p class=ox-ebcf093d7a-yiv4262301497msonormal><span style='font-family:"New serif"'>Greetings Paul,</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=ox-ebcf093d7a-yiv4262301497msonormal><span style='font-family:"New serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=ox-ebcf093d7a-yiv4262301497msonormal><span style='font-family:"New serif"'>I am so sorry to hear this.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=ox-ebcf093d7a-yiv4262301497msonormal>Thank you for sharing this unfortunate news.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=ox-ebcf093d7a-yiv4262301497msonormal> <o:p></o:p></p><div id=ox-ebcf093d7a-yiv4262301497yqt03567><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=ox-ebcf093d7a-yiv4262301497msonormal><strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>From:</span></strong> <a href="mailto:blkteachmd@aol.com">blkteachmd@aol.com</a> [<a href="mailto:blkteachmd@aol.com">mailto:blkteachmd@aol.com</a>] <br><strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Sent:</span></strong> Wednesday, April 15, 2020 10:20 AM<br><strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>To:</span></strong> Sharma, Anu C. <<a href="mailto:acsharma@wmata.com">acsharma@wmata.com</a>>; <a href="mailto:elarsy@hotmail.com">elarsy@hotmail.com</a>; <a href="mailto:darnise.bush@dc.gov">darnise.bush@dc.gov</a>; <a href="mailto:fcalabia36@gmail.com">fcalabia36@gmail.com</a>; <a href="mailto:coneyshomesolutions@gmail.com">coneyshomesolutions@gmail.com</a>; <a href="mailto:ccrawford@rcn.com">ccrawford@rcn.com</a>; <a href="mailto:rdancy82@gmail.com">rdancy82@gmail.com</a>; <a href="mailto:melanie.jackson@ymail.com">melanie.jackson@ymail.com</a>; <a href="mailto:zzask@yahoo.com">zzask@yahoo.com</a>; <a href="mailto:mkm1mary@yahoo.com">mkm1mary@yahoo.com</a>; <a href="mailto:pkmezile@rcn.com">pkmezile@rcn.com</a>; <a href="mailto:anthony.oberg@gmail.com">anthony.oberg@gmail.com</a>; <a href="mailto:pposner@comcast.net">pposner@comcast.net</a>; <a href="mailto:DorisR@ecnv.org">DorisR@ecnv.org</a>; <a href="mailto:drush@steptoe.com">drush@steptoe.com</a>; Patrick, Sheehan <<a href="mailto:pat.sheehan1@verizon.net">pat.sheehan1@verizon.net</a>>; <a href="mailto:kelley.simoneaux@gmail.com">kelley.simoneaux@gmail.com</a>; <a href="mailto:colesve@comcast.net">colesve@comcast.net</a><br><strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Cc:</span></strong> Blake, Christiaan P. <<a href="mailto:cblake@wmata.com">cblake@wmata.com</a>>; Hill, Kiano A. <<a href="mailto:KAHill1@wmata.com">KAHill1@wmata.com</a>>; Lopez, Carol P. <<a href="mailto:cplopez@wmata.com">cplopez@wmata.com</a>>; Anderson, Allison M. <<a href="mailto:amanderson@wmata.com">amanderson@wmata.com</a>>; <a href="mailto:blkteachmd@aol.com">blkteachmd@aol.com</a><br><strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Subject:</span></strong> <External>Former AAC member passing notification<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=ox-ebcf093d7a-yiv4262301497msonormal> <o:p></o:p></p><div style='border:solid #9C6500 1.0pt;padding:2.0pt 2.0pt 2.0pt 2.0pt'><p class=ox-ebcf093d7a-yiv4262301497msonormal style='line-height:12.0pt;background:#FFFFD5'><strong><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>CAUTION:</span></strong><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>This email originated from outside of the organization. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and have verified the authenticity of the message. </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=ox-ebcf093d7a-yiv4262301497msonormal> <o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class=ox-ebcf093d7a-yiv4262301497msonormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Dear AAC members and Metro Staff: </span><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=ox-ebcf093d7a-yiv4262301497msonormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=ox-ebcf093d7a-yiv4262301497msonormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>I just wanted to announce to you if some of you have not already heard in the news, Brian Miller the former BRS Chair a few years ago, died this week of complications from Covid -19! He was a true advocate for people with disabilities, especially the visually impaired community and was a very active former member of the AAC. FYI.</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=ox-ebcf093d7a-yiv4262301497msonormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=ox-ebcf093d7a-yiv4262301497msonormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Thank you.</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=ox-ebcf093d7a-yiv4262301497msonormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Paul Semelfort</span><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=ox-ebcf093d7a-yiv4262301497msonormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>-----Original Message-----<br>From: Sharma, Anu C. <<a href="mailto:acsharma@wmata.com" target="_blank">acsharma@wmata.com</a>><br>To: <a href="mailto:elarsy@hotmail.com" target="_blank">elarsy@hotmail.com</a> <<a href="mailto:elarsy@hotmail.com" target="_blank">elarsy@hotmail.com</a>>; <a href="mailto:darnise.bush@dc.gov" target="_blank">darnise.bush@dc.gov</a> <<a href="mailto:darnise.bush@dc.gov" target="_blank">darnise.bush@dc.gov</a>>; <a href="mailto:fcalabia36@gmail.com" target="_blank">fcalabia36@gmail.com</a> <<a href="mailto:fcalabia36@gmail.com" target="_blank">fcalabia36@gmail.com</a>>; <a href="mailto:coneyshomesolutions@gmail.com" target="_blank">coneyshomesolutions@gmail.com</a> <<a href="mailto:coneyshomesolutions@gmail.com" target="_blank">coneyshomesolutions@gmail.com</a>>; Charles Crawford <<a href="mailto:ccrawford@rcn.com" target="_blank">ccrawford@rcn.com</a>>; Rico Dancy <<a href="mailto:rdancy82@gmail.com" target="_blank">rdancy82@gmail.com</a>>; <a href="mailto:melanie.jackson@ymail.com" target="_blank">melanie.jackson@ymail.com</a> <<a href="mailto:melanie.jackson@ymail.com" target="_blank">melanie.jackson@ymail.com</a>>; <a href="mailto:zzask@yahoo.com" target="_blank">zzask@yahoo.com</a> <<a href="mailto:zzask@yahoo.com" target="_blank">zzask@yahoo.com</a>>; <a href="mailto:mkm1mary@yahoo.com" target="_blank">mkm1mary@yahoo.com</a> <<a href="mailto:mkm1mary@yahoo.com" target="_blank">mkm1mary@yahoo.com</a>>; <a href="mailto:pkmezile@rcn.com" target="_blank">pkmezile@rcn.com</a> <<a href="mailto:pkmezile@rcn.com" target="_blank">pkmezile@rcn.com</a>>; Anthony Oberg <<a href="mailto:anthony.oberg@gmail.com" target="_blank">anthony.oberg@gmail.com</a>>; <a href="mailto:pposner@comcast.net" target="_blank">pposner@comcast.net</a> <<a href="mailto:pposner@comcast.net" target="_blank">pposner@comcast.net</a>>; <a href="mailto:DorisR@ecnv.org" target="_blank">DorisR@ecnv.org</a> <<a href="mailto:DorisR@ecnv.org" target="_blank">DorisR@ecnv.org</a>>; <a href="mailto:drush@steptoe.com" target="_blank">drush@steptoe.com</a> <<a href="mailto:drush@steptoe.com" target="_blank">drush@steptoe.com</a>>; <a href="mailto:blkteachmd@aol.com" target="_blank">blkteachmd@aol.com</a> <<a href="mailto:blkteachmd@aol.com" target="_blank">blkteachmd@aol.com</a>>; Patrick, Sheehan <<a href="mailto:pat.sheehan1@verizon.net" target="_blank">pat.sheehan1@verizon.net</a>>; <a href="mailto:kelley.simoneaux@gmail.com" target="_blank">kelley.simoneaux@gmail.com</a> <<a href="mailto:kelley.simoneaux@gmail.com" target="_blank">kelley.simoneaux@gmail.com</a>>; Vanessa <<a href="mailto:colesve@comcast.net" target="_blank">colesve@comcast.net</a>>; Patrick, Sheehan <<a href="mailto:pat.sheehan1@verizon.net" target="_blank">pat.sheehan1@verizon.net</a>><br>Cc: Blake, Christiaan P. <<a href="mailto:cblake@wmata.com" target="_blank">cblake@wmata.com</a>>; Hill, Kiano A. <<a href="mailto:KAHill1@wmata.com" target="_blank">KAHill1@wmata.com</a>>; Lopez, Carol P. <<a href="mailto:cplopez@wmata.com" target="_blank">cplopez@wmata.com</a>><br>Sent: Fri, Apr 3, 2020 8:30 am<br>Subject: RE: AAC Meeting Materials: April 2020</span><o:p></o:p></p><div id=ox-ebcf093d7a-yiv4262301497><div><div><div><p class=ox-ebcf093d7a-yiv4262301497msonormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Good morning AAC Members,</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=ox-ebcf093d7a-yiv4262301497msonormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=ox-ebcf093d7a-yiv4262301497msonormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Please find attached the Board Report draft for approval on Monday, April 6, 2020.</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=ox-ebcf093d7a-yiv4262301497msonormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=ox-ebcf093d7a-yiv4262301497msonormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Sincerely,</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=ox-ebcf093d7a-yiv4262301497msonormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Anu</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=ox-ebcf093d7a-yiv4262301497msonormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div id=ox-ebcf093d7a-yiv4262301497yqt99227><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><div><p class=ox-ebcf093d7a-yiv4262301497msonormal><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>From:</span></strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'> Sharma, Anu C. <br><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Sent:</span></strong> Thursday, April 2, 2020 11:49 AM<br><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>To:</span></strong> <a href="mailto:elarsy@hotmail.com" target="_blank">elarsy@hotmail.com</a>; <a href="mailto:darnise.bush@dc.gov" target="_blank">darnise.bush@dc.gov</a>; <a href="mailto:fcalabia36@gmail.com" target="_blank">fcalabia36@gmail.com</a>; <a href="mailto:coneyshomesolutions@gmail.com" target="_blank">coneyshomesolutions@gmail.com</a>; Charles Crawford <<a href="mailto:ccrawford@rcn.com" target="_blank">ccrawford@rcn.com</a>>; Rico Dancy <<a href="mailto:rdancy82@gmail.com" target="_blank">rdancy82@gmail.com</a>>; <a href="mailto:melanie.jackson@ymail.com" target="_blank">melanie.jackson@ymail.com</a>; <a href="mailto:zzask@yahoo.com" target="_blank">zzask@yahoo.com</a>; <a href="mailto:mkm1mary@yahoo.com" target="_blank">mkm1mary@yahoo.com</a>; <a href="mailto:pkmezile@rcn.com" target="_blank">pkmezile@rcn.com</a>; Anthony Oberg <<a href="mailto:anthony.oberg@gmail.com" target="_blank">anthony.oberg@gmail.com</a>>; <a href="mailto:pposner@comcast.net" target="_blank">pposner@comcast.net</a>; <a href="mailto:DorisR@ecnv.org" target="_blank">DorisR@ecnv.org</a>; <a href="mailto:drush@steptoe.com" target="_blank">drush@steptoe.com</a>; <a href="mailto:blkteachmd@aol.com" target="_blank">blkteachmd@aol.com</a>; Patrick, Sheehan <<a href="mailto:pat.sheehan1@verizon.net" target="_blank">pat.sheehan1@verizon.net</a>>; <a href="mailto:kelley.simoneaux@gmail.com" target="_blank">kelley.simoneaux@gmail.com</a>; Vanessa <<a href="mailto:colesve@comcast.net" target="_blank">colesve@comcast.net</a>>; Patrick, Sheehan <<a href="mailto:pat.sheehan1@verizon.net" target="_blank">pat.sheehan1@verizon.net</a>><br><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Cc:</span></strong> Blake, Christiaan P. <<a href="mailto:cblake@wmata.com" target="_blank">cblake@wmata.com</a>>; Hill, Kiano A. <<a href="mailto:KAHill1@wmata.com" target="_blank">KAHill1@wmata.com</a>>; Lopez, Carol P. <<a href="mailto:cplopez@wmata.com" target="_blank">cplopez@wmata.com</a>><br><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Subject:</span></strong> AAC Meeting Materials: April 2020</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div><div><p class=ox-ebcf093d7a-yiv4262301497msonormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=ox-ebcf093d7a-yiv4262301497msonormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Good Morning AAC Members,</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=ox-ebcf093d7a-yiv4262301497msonormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=ox-ebcf093d7a-yiv4262301497msonormal><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>The AAC Meeting will be held virtually on April 6, 2020. Members can join the video conference and/or teleconference call. Information about it will be provided in a separate email.</span></strong><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=ox-ebcf093d7a-yiv4262301497msonormal style='text-align:justify'><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'> </span></strong><o:p></o:p></p><p class=ox-ebcf093d7a-yiv4262301497msonormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>The Accessibility Advisory Committee (AAC)</span> <span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>meeting materials for the month of April 2020 are available for download. To access the meeting materials please click <a href="https://nam03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wmata.com%2Fabout%2Faccessibility-advisory-committee%2FAAC-Review.cfm&data=02%7C01%7Ccblake%40wmata.com%7C7a6d6268866b422992f508d7e1481b4f%7Cad5836f40d7443cd83c57e69eaa67915%7C0%7C0%7C637225572137470533&sdata=nef5Z9lzVX01SIDE4ES5adFYMmBnGob3a%2FmnoseYZWE%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank"><span style='color:windowtext'>AAC Meeting Materials</span></a> . <span class=ox-ebcf093d7a-yiv4262301497apple-style-span>You will be directed to a page on Metro’s website using Internet Explorer, where the materials can be accessed and downloaded at your convenience.</span></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=ox-ebcf093d7a-yiv4262301497msonormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=ox-ebcf093d7a-yiv4262301497msonormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Any documents/reports not available on the website at this time, may be posted by Monday, April 6<sup>th</sup>, 2020.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=ox-ebcf093d7a-yiv4262301497msonormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Should you have any questions or difficulties accessing the documents, please contact me via email or at 202-962-1934.</span><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=ox-ebcf093d7a-yiv4262301497msonormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=ox-ebcf093d7a-yiv4262301497msonormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Sincerely,</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=ox-ebcf093d7a-yiv4262301497msonormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Anu</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=ox-ebcf093d7a-yiv4262301497msonormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=ox-ebcf093d7a-yiv4262301497msonormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=ox-ebcf093d7a-yiv4262301497msonormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=ox-ebcf093d7a-yiv4262301497msonormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>ACCESSIBILITY ADVISORY COMMITTEE COORDINATOR</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=ox-ebcf093d7a-yiv4262301497msonormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>DEPARTMENT OF ACCESS SERVICES/OFFICE OF ADA POLICY & PLANNING</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=ox-ebcf093d7a-yiv4262301497msonormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=ox-ebcf093d7a-yiv4262301497msonormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>600 5<sup>th</sup> Street N.W. Suite 7A-01C</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=ox-ebcf093d7a-yiv4262301497msonormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Washington, D.C. 20001</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=ox-ebcf093d7a-yiv4262301497msonormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Phone: (202) 962 - 1934</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div><p class=ox-ebcf093d7a-yiv4262301497msonormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></blockquote><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333'><br> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></body></html>