<div>Good morning all, please see below. The Fairfax chapter is hosting a very important meeting this Thursday at 7 PM to discuss the critical topic of transportation accessibility. They are inviting all to join in in the discussion.</div><div dir="auto"><br clear="all"><br clear="all"><div dir="auto"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(32,33,36)">Teisha Gillespie (She/Her/Hers)</span><div>Communications Chair, NFB of Virginia<br><div><div><div><div>Host of the Not Your Average GOAT Podcast | The show that celebrates all the shapes, sizes and colors of diversity as well as adversity | <span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(32,33,36)">Listen and subscribe on <a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/6v0eJPeJd1pTMitq7Mj46Q" target="_blank">Spotify</a> or <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/not-your-average-goat/id1622832417" target="_blank">Apple Podcasts</a></span></div><div>Connect with me on <a href="http://linkedin.com/in/teishacollins" target="_blank">LinkedIn</a></div><div>Want to chat DEI or marketing? <a href="https://calendly.com/teishagillespie/phone-call" target="_blank">Book a phone call.</a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Christine Grassman</strong> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:cfgrassman@icloud.com">cfgrassman@icloud.com</a>></span><br>Date: Fri, Feb 14, 2025 at 12:32 AM<br>Subject: FAirfax Chapter Transportation Talk: February 20, 2025, Fairfax Chapter Meeting<br>To: Jacki Bruce <<a href="mailto:jackibruce6@gmail.com">jackibruce6@gmail.com</a>>, Teisha Gillespie <<a href="mailto:teisha.collins@gmail.com">teisha.collins@gmail.com</a>><br>CC: C. Grassman <<a href="mailto:cfgrassman@icloud.com">cfgrassman@icloud.com</a>><br></div><br><br>** Please spread the word . . . <br>
Christine<br>
Do you live outside of your paratransit system’s eligibility zone, or do you not have any paratransit option at all?<br>
Does it take you an hour to go five miles using public transportation?<br>
Do you hang out at college all day because of this, even on the days that you only have one class, orpick and choose job interviews/opportunities extremely carefully because of this?<br>
Have you missed out on a job opportunity because despite your best planning, you simply could not get to the interview on time?<br>
Have you missed medical appointments for the same reason, or settled for a doctor, dentist, other specialist, or other service merely because it was local, despite being unhappy with the staff, the service, or both?<br>
Welcome to the land of frustration, missed chances, and yes, sometimes resentment, that such circumstances cause.<br>
The Fairfax Chapter wants to talk with you, hear from you, and work with you to strategize to change this abysmal state of affairs.<br>
In a major metropolitan center, it just should not be this difficult to get to where you need to go in a more efficient, reliable manner.<br>
Join us at our Thursday, February 20, 2025, chapter meeting, via the affiliate Zoom at 7:00 PM to plumb the depths of this transportation travesty, these travel travails, these troublesome trials.<br>
We have our stories; now let’s talk strategy and solution.<br>
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Join us, from wherever, to develop an action plan, and then to follow through with it . . . together: locally and beyond. <br>
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