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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8pt;line-height:106%"><b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">March 2022 Commission Community Connection Conference Call  </span></b><span style="color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">“Women’s History Month 2022: Celebrating Women Who Have Ignited Change”  </span></b><span style="color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:106%"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:white;color:black">The theme for Women's History Month 2022 is “Providing Healing and Promoting Hope”.  </span><span style="color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:106%"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:white;color:black">Appropriately, this month’s call will feature guest speakers who will share stories about pioneers, leaders, trailblazers, advocates and
 activists who happen to be blind. Join us to hear from and about “Change Makers” - people who identified an issue, concern or problem, and, with a deep-rooted sense of responsibility and empathy for others, they did something about it.    </span><span style="color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:106%"><b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:white;color:black">Host: Krystle Allen</span></b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:white;color:black">, CBVI Community Outreach Specialist </span><span style="color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p style="margin-right:0.5in;background-color:white"><b><u><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:white;color:black">Everlee Hairston, Human Rights Activist, Author and NFB National Board Member</span></u></b><u><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in;color:black"> </span></u><span style="color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0.5in;background-color:white"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:white;color:black">Will share her journey from being raised on the Coolamee plantation in the segregated south, to marching with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.;
 how from there she came to be the  Director of an Alcohol and Substance Abuse Program here in NJ and now, the President of the California Chapter of the National Federation of the Blind (NFB). </span><span style="color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p style="margin-right:0.5in;background-color:white"><b><u><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Margaret Winchester-Graw, Executive Director, Margaret Winchester Enrichment Center for the Blind
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<p style="margin-right:0.5in;background-color:white"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Will discuss the rich legacy of her Mother, the late Margaret Battle Winchester and how she came to be the Founder of a center for people who are blind, deaf-blind
 and visually impaired.   </span><span style="color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p style="margin-right:0.5in;background-color:white"><b><u><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Jessica Daye, Equal Opportunity Compliance Investigator and Parenting Rights Activist  </span></u></b><span style="color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0.5in;background-color:white"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Will discuss her experience as a parent who is blind and her work advocating for parenting and reproductive rights.  </span><span style="color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p style="margin-right:0.5in;background-color:white"><b><u><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Yadira Torres-Thabata, Co-Founder and COO, Islam By Touch
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<p style="margin-right:0.5in;background-color:white"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Will discuss her experience as the founder of an organization dedicated to ensuring access to Islamic reading materials for Muslims who are blind.  </span><span style="color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p style="margin-right:0.5in;background-color:white"><b><u><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Kaleigh Brendle, College Student, Musician and Disability Rights Activist  </span></u></b><u><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"> </span></u><span style="color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0.5in;background-color:white"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Will talk about her victorious challenge of the College Board which became a win for blind students across the country and her plans to become a disability
 rights attorney. </span><span style="color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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 future Commission Connection Calls, please don’t hesitate to email: </span><span style="color:black"><a href="mailto:Krystle.Allen@dhs.nj.gov" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in;background-color:white">Krystle.Allen@dhs.nj.gov</span></a></span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in;background-color:white;color:black">
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