<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Greetings NABS,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">This months blog post comes from Cricket Bidleman who was one of our national scholarship winners this year.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Cricket Bidleman was adopted from China, and currently lives in California. She will be starting her freshman year at Stanford University in September. Currently, she is a proud member of the National Federation of the Blind, serving on multiple committees in the student division. She also does outreach for the California student division of the NFB of California, and does quality assurance work on Pearson’s accessibility team. In her spare time, she enjoys reading, knitting, singing, hiking, playing the piano, learning, and working with technology. She hopes to be a college professor, and to study abroad in Europe.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Please join with me in reading this story about how another one of our NFB training centers has empowered one of our student members. If you have any questions or comments please contact Bryan at:</div><div class=""><a href="mailto:bjduarte@asu.edu" class="">bjduarte@asu.edu</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="http://nabslink.org/content/blog-post-month-august-first-time" class="">http://nabslink.org/content/blog-post-month-august-first-time</a> <br class=""><div class="">
<div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><br class="">Bryan Duarte | software engineer<br class="">ASU Computer Science Ph.D Student<br class="">Alliance for Person-centered Accessible Technology IGERT Fellow<br class="">National Association of Blind Students | Board Member<br class="">Arizona Association of Blind Students | President<br class=""><br class="">The National Federation of the Blind is a community of members and friends who believe in the hopes and dreams of the nation’s blind. Every day we work together to help blind people live the lives they want.</div></div>
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