[NFBMT] NFB Virtual Convention Schedule for Sunday, July 10, 2022

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Sunday, July 10, 2022

Banquet Day and Adjournment

All times are Mountain Daylight Time.

 

8:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. General Session V (Sunday)

Zoom meeting ID: https://zoom.us/j/96287762142

1CapApp: https://ECS.1capapp.com/event/nfb

 

Call to Order and Invocation

Owning Your Creative Content: Cryptocurrency, Accessibility, and the
Organized Blind Movement

Suman Kanuganti, CEO, Personal.ai; San Diego, California

 

Building the Future Together: A Report from Our Jernigan Institute

Anil Lewis, Executive Director for Blindness Initiatives, National Federation
of the Blind; Baltimore, Maryland

 

Stretching the Dimensions of Nonvisual Learning: Blind-Led Youth Programming
and Engineering

Natalie Shaheen, SABER: NFB EQ Program Director and Assistant Professor,
Illinois State University; Normal, Illinois

Madeline Mau, Student, NFB EQ Online 2021; Princeton Junction, New Jersey

Robert Eggleston, Student, NFB EQ 2021; Virginia Beach, Virginia

Maura Loberg, Student, NFB EQ 2019; Lincoln, Nebraska

Gabriel Mendez-Frances, Student, NFB EQ 2019; Birmingham, Alabama

Andrea Cataquiz, Student, NFB EQ 2021; Glendale Heights, Illinois

Abby Duffy, Student, NFB EQ 2019 and NFB EQ Online 2020; Concord, New
Hampshire

 

Accessibility Awareness on a Global Scale: Bringing Tech Professionals to Our
Movement of Equality

Jennison Asuncion, Co-founder, Global Accessibility Awareness Day, and Vice
Chair, GAAD Foundation; City, State

 

Creating Content with Accessibility as the Default: Celebrating Drupal's
Olivero Theme and Calling for More Blind Contributors

Mike Gifford, Senior Strategist, CivicActions, and Drupal Core Accessibility
Maintainer; Lafayette, California

 

The Right to Participate Fully in Twenty-First Century America: Civil Rights
Advancement at the United States Department of Justice

Anne Raish, Principal Deputy Chief, Disability Rights Section, United States
Department of Justice; Washington, District of Columbia

 

Leading through Literacy: A New Library Director Committed to Partnership
with the Organized Blind Movement 

Jason Broughton, Director, National Library Service for the Blind and Print
Disabled; Washington, District of Columbia

 

Reports and Resolutions

Adjourn

 

1:00 - 4:00 p.m. MDT: General Session VI (Sunday)

Zoom meeting ID: https://zoom.us/j/96287762142

1CapApp: https://ECS.1capapp.com/event/nfb

 

Call to Order

The Fifteenth Annual Dr. Jacob Bolotin Awards 

Everette Bacon, Chairperson, Dr. Jacob Bolotin Award Committee, and Board
Member, National Federation of the Blind; Salt Lake City, Utah

 

Transformation in Employment: Smart Partnership to Build the Future Together

Regina Kline, CEO and Founder, SmartJob, LLC; Alexandria, Virginia

 

Diversity at Kellogg: A Commitment that Raises Expectations for Blind
Empowerment

Wilson Ray, Sr., Director, Retail Sales Operations, Kellogg Company;
Kalamazoo, Michigan

 

Engineering a New Response: Transforming At-Home Testing through Partnership
with the Blind

Jill Heemskerk, Deputy Director, National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and
Bioengineering, National Institutes of Health; Bethesda, Maryland 

 

Going My Way: Driving Accessibility through Innovative Autonomous
Transportation

Michelle Peacock, Global Public Policy Director, Waymo; Mountain View,
California

 

Supreme Action to Shatter Low Expectations: Living Blind and Serving on the
Bench

Supreme Court Justice Richard Bernstein, Michigan Supreme Court; Lansing,
Michigan

 

Owning Our Stories: Raising the Impact of Individuals by Sharing the History
of Our Movement

Peggy Chong, The Blind History Lady; Aurora, Colorado

 

Reports and Resolutions

Adjourn

 

6:00 p.m. Banquet (Sunday)

Zoom meeting ID: https://zoom.us/j/96287762142

1CapApp: https://ECS.1capapp.com/event/nfb

 

Special thanks to our Elite convention sponsor, Kellogg Company.

 

Invocation

Master of Ceremonies: Pam Allen

Introductions and Presentations

Banquet Address: Mark Riccobono

Scholarship Awards

 

Joy Breslauer, First Vice President

National Federation of the Blind of Montana 

Web Site: http://www.nfbofmt.org <http://www.nfbofmt.org/> 

 

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