[NFBV-Announce] Hotel deadline 12/31: Join us for the 2025 Washington Seminar (February 3-5 - Register Online

[jackibruce6 at gmail.com]

>From Deepa Goraya

NFB of Virginia Legislative Director  for Washington Seminar 

  <mailto:deepa.goraya at gmail.com> deepa.goraya at gmail.com

 

Hello Virginia Federationists,

The 2025 Washington Seminar is fast approaching in person from Monday,
February 3 through Thursday, February 6, 2025.

The deadline for reservations at the hotel at the special rate of $194 per
night (plus taxes and fees) is Tuesday, December 31 and rooms will not be
available in the discounted block after 12/31 so make your reservations
right away.

 

 

 We need you to act this month to book hotel rooms and register online to
participate.


Schedule:


 

1.	Hotel Reservation and Registration - Please book your hotel and
complete the registration processes listed below by December 31.
2.	Three national scheduled training sessions will be conducted over
Zoom during January (so put these on your calendar with Zoom links to be
provided in January) as follows:

- Issues training Thursday, January 9, 8:00 p.m. Eastern 

- Mock Meeting Training 1: Monday, January 13, 8:00 p.m. Eastern

- Mock Meeting Training 2 - Thursday, January 23 8:00 p.m. Eastern

3.	Virginia Caucus - this Prep Session over Zoom will be conducted on
Saturday, February 1 at 3:00 PM.
4.	Career Seminar and Job Fair - There will be a career seminar and job
fair with many employers on Monday morning, February 3
5.	Student Seminar - There will be student programming on Sunday,
February 2 and Monday, February 3 conducted by the National Association of
Blind Students.
6.	Legislative Training- On  Monday, February 3, there will be an
afternoon training run by our national office for individuals attending
appointments on Tuesday and Wednesday. Typically, this meeting begins at
2:00 PM.
7.	Great Gathering In - The official kick off and rally, the
Great-Gathering-In, is scheduled for Monday, February 3, 2025 at 5:00 PM.
8.	Appointments with our Virginia Congressional Delegation - we strive
to make all appointments on just Tuesday and Wednesday (February 4 and 5) so
everyone can depart on Wednesday evening and you should not need to stay
Wednesday evening. All appointments will be conducted in person.
9.	More schedule details will be provided on our Washington Seminar
landing page and will be provided to registered participants.
<https://nfb.org/programs-services/advocacy/washington-seminar>
https://nfb.org/programs-services/advocacy/washington-seminar

 


Hotel Reservations:


The deadline for making hotel reservations with the Holiday Inn Capitol is
December 31, 2024, and  the hotel booked up  early last year so you will not
want to wait. Do not assume rooms in the room block will be available by
late December because the room block fills up quickly.

To book a room for the 2025 Washington Seminar please use our dedicated
<https://www.ihg.com/holidayinn/hotels/us/en/find-hotels/select-roomrate?fro
mRedirect=true&qSrt=sBR&qIta=99801505&icdv=99801505&qSlH=WASSM&qCiD=30&qCiMy
=002025&qCoD=07&qCoMy=012025&qGrpCd=NF5&setPMCookies=true&qSHBrC=HI&qDest=55
0%20C%20Street%20S.W.,%20Washington,%20DC,%20US&srb_u=1&qChAge=&qRmFltr=>
booking link, or call 877-834-3613 and provide our group code, NF5. The room
rate for 2025 is 194.00 dollars per night, plus taxes and fees, and the
deadline to make a reservation is December 31, 2024.

 


Registering for the 2025 Washington  Seminar:


 

The legislative Committee needs to begin creating teams of those who will be
attending Washington Seminar and start scheduling appointments with members
of Congress. To secure appointments, we need to show we have constituents
who will be present. This year, registration has two online steps because
both the Virginia affiliate and our national office have registration
processes with different goals and these processes are not connected. 

 

Please let us know by December 31 whether you plan to attend and which days
you are available using the online forms. 

For the Virginia affiliate, please register online at:

http://archive.nfbv.org/washington

 

 

Additionally, our national office has defined a registration process found
at:

 

https://nfb.org/programs-services/advocacy/washington-seminar/registration

 

 

Our legislative issues for the 2025 session will be the Websites and
Software Applications Accessibility Act, the Medical Device Nonvisual
Accessibility Act, and the Blind Americans Return to Work Act.

The online training schedules will be published in early January. If you
have any questions or concerns, you may contact me, your co-legislative
director, at  <mailto:deepa.goraya at gmail.com> deepa.goraya at gmail.com or call
me at 9099643699.

 

Sincerely,

 

Deepa Goraya

Co-Legislative Director

National Federation of the Blind of Virginia

 

 

Peace,

 

Jacki Bruce

 

Corresponding Secretary NFBV

mailto:jackibruce6 at gmail.com

tel:(757)291-1789

 

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STRONGER TOGETHER!

 

 

 

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