<div>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Gaston, Pamela</strong><br></div><div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Date: Wed, Apr 14, 2021 at 2:29 PM<br>Subject: April Commission Connection Conference Call - 4/21/21</div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><b>The Commission<span style="color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in"> for the Blind and Visually Impaired </span></b></span><b style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt">invites you to call-in to our</b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt"> </span></p>
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<b style="font-size:11pt;font-style:inherit;font-variant-ligatures:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">April 2021 Commission Connection Conference Call  </span></b></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">“NJCBVI Success Stories: April Showers Bring CBVI Scholars” </span></b></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Wednesday, April 21, 2021 </span></b></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white">Would you like to know… </span></b></p>
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<li><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white">How CBVI helps prepare high school students for college? </span></li><li><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white">How to minimize the necessity to rely upon expensive student loans? </span></li><li><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white">The history and background of the CBVI Board of Trustees (BOT) scholarships? </span></li><li><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white">How some CBVI students self-advocated for accommodations in college? </span></li><li><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white">What campus-life is like for a CBVI student who has never lived away from home? and </span></li><li><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white">If there is a standard definition for “SUCCESS”? <br>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">Join us and hear the answers to these questions and listen to a group of people who will share their own unique stories of their experiences as CBVI students and their
 individual journeys towards achieving their academic and career goals. </span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white">Host: Krystle Allen</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white">, CBVI Community Outreach Specialist </span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white">Joy Atin-Shark</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white">, Supervisor; CBVI High School Transition Services/ Former CBVI Student<span>                   
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white">Edward Kawalec</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white">, CBVI VR Counselor / BOT Scholarship Committee Member </span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white">Titus Massey</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white">, Fiscal Manager, NY/NJ Port Authority / Former CBVI Student </span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white">Evangelia Stone</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white">, Chair, CBVI State Rehabilitation Council / Former CBVI Student </span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white">Sena Pottackal</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white">, BOT Scholarship Awardee / Public Relations Strategist </span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white">Jonathan Zobek</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white">, BOT Scholarship Awardee / President NFBNJ Students’ Division </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:white">If you have any questions, or would like to suggest topics for future Commission Connection Calls, please don’t hesitate to email:
</span><a href="mailto:Krystle.Allen@dhs.nj.gov" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:white">Krystle.Allen@dhs.nj.gov</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:white">
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