[NFBV-Announce] Member to Member, let's get to know each other!

[jackibruce6 at gmail.com]

Hey NFB Family and Friends,

 

Welcome to the 2nd installment of Member to Member, this week we will get to
know Ameenah Ghoston, from the Fairfax Chapter. Please read on and enjoy!

 

Last week, I made a mistake in telling everyone about John Halverson. I said
John saw Marion Barry at National Convention and Marion actually spoke at
the D.C. Convention. Sorry John!

 

I’ve been speaking with a number of members so far and let me tell you, you
guys have lived! I had planned to tell everyone about four members per week
but with all of the interesting bits the Membership Committee and I have
received, we are going to go about this differently! We will have two
installments per week, Tuesday and Thursday. Each installment will feature
one or two members. The subject will always be Member to Member, let’s get
to know each other! This way, if you don’t have time to read the profiles on
the day they are sent, you can save them in your inbox or set up a folder to
read them when you’re chilling, exercising, doing chores or whatever. The
Membership Committee and I hope you enjoy reading these profiles as much as
we’ve enjoyed collecting them! 

 

Member to Member: Ameenah

 

Ameenah came to us via “the windy city” Chicago, IL. where she is the second
oldest of six in a blended family. Ameenah was a preemie and had her retinas
damaged so blindness and the NFB have been a part of her life since she was
six years old.

 

Ameenah belongs to the Fairfax Chapter and she is their Treasurer. Ameenah
has been a RISE Mentor for three years now and she loves it!!One of her
memorable moments was when one of her students navigated in a hotel, from
the room to the meeting space by themselves. “Moments like that make it all
worth it” Ameenah says!    She also loves it when the students work together
to figure things out and when they are out of their comfort zones.

 

Ameenah was a part of the NFB National CORE Program where for 1 ½ years she
traveled around the United States starting new chapters and helping to
strengthen existing chapters.  She helped to start the Peninsula Chapter,
the Prince William Chapter, chapters in Missouri,  Mississippi and Florida.
At one point, she visited five cities in one month! Ameenah laughs when she
said “I woke up in the morning and didn’t know where I was”. She had many
CORE partners during the program, including Joe Orozco. She really liked her
time with the program, “it gave me time to figure out what I wanted to do
next.” 

 

Ameenah is a 2004 graduate of the Louisiana Center. She is also a graduate
of the University of IL. Urbana Champaign where she earned her Bachelors of
Arts and History with a minor in Computer Science. She recently graduated
from the Dallas Theological Seminary.  

 

She relocated to D.C. in 2005 where she began her career with the federal
government; she is currently a section 508 digital accessibility program
manager for the defense health agency. 

 

Ameenah has four nephews aged 2 thru 11 who all call her Auntie. If Ameenah
won $200,000 she would split it between the four of them; Ameenah, do you
want to be my Auntie too?!Ameenah thinks people would be surprised to know
she loves kids, especially 10 thru 13 year olds! 

 

Beast, because he is wild and runs around the house and Grey because he is
such a curmundgon are her two cat fur babies. Ameenah plays piano and has,
previously directed and played in  a children’s choir for 7 years. Ameenah
has completed a marathon and has done fire walking! The things you learn
when you take the time to chat with people, its amazing!  

 

Check you again on Thursday! Have a good one!

 

Peace,

 

Jacki Bruce

 

Corresponding Secretary NFBV

mailto:jackibruce6 at gmail.com

tel:(757)291-1789

 

Membership Chair

mailto:membership at nfbv.org

tel:(757)354-4170

 

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STRONGER TOGETHER!

 

 

 

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