Braille Monitor Vol. 67, No. 11, December 2024

Vol. 67, No. 11                                                                       December 2024

 

                                                       Contents

 

Convention Bulletin 2025

 

Announcing a New Editor and Why It Should Matter to You

by Mark Riccobono

 

Reflections on and Appreciation for My Time as Editor

by Gary Wunder

 

Neither Dog nor Cane nor Blindness Should Deprive Us of a Ride

by Chris Danielsen

 

A Mountain, a Waterfall, a Cracked Pool, and a Christmas Tree Color Wheel

by Ray McGeorge

 

Beyond the Reason Why

by Edwin Cooney

 

Leading Courageously in Art: Poetry, Sensibility, and Aesthetics of Sharing Our Unseen Stories

by Set Hernandez

 

A Blind, Black Education Pioneer

by Peggy Chong

 

GAAD Is Good – But it’s not Enough

by Peter Slatin

 

From the President’s Desk

by Mark Riccobono

 

The 2025 Washington Seminar Approaches

by Kyle Walls

 

A Proclamation on Blind Americans Equality Day, 2024

 

To See and Not to See: Helping Students with Cortical Visual Impairment Access the Resources They Need

by Stephanie Duesing

 

Today’s Artificial Intelligence: Our Future for Reading and Writing STEM?

by Al Maneki

 

Announcing an Exciting Update to the NFB 2025 Scholarship Program

by Cayte Mendez

 

2025 Writing Contest Guidelines

by Officials of the Writers’ Division

 

 

Photo and Web List

Issue: [December 2024]

Photos:

Convention Bulletin photos (these are already in article)

Mark Riccobono

Gary Wunder

Chris Danielsen

Ray McGeorge

Edwin Cooney

Set Hernandez

Peggy Chong

Peter Slatin

Kyle Walls

Stephanie Duesing

Al Maneki

Cayte Mendez

Writers’ Division

 

Web Links:

www.nfb.org

www.nfbnet.org

Facebook.com/nationalfederationoftheblind

YouTube.com/NationsBlind

www.nfb.org/planned-giving

www.nfb.org/make-gift

nfb.org/convention

https://nfb.org/sites/default/files/images/nfb/publications/books/wamt/wam15.htm)

https://nfb.org/sites/default/files/images/nfb/publications/bm/bm10/bm1001/bm100103.htm

nfb.org/rideshare

https://www.nfb.org/presidential-releases

nfb.org/advocacy

nfb.org/Washington-seminar

Bookshare.org

www.cviscotland.org

https://www.perkins.org/our-work/cvi/by-the-numbers/

https://www.perkins.org/resource/my-experience-navigating-the-transition-from-high-school-to-college-as-a-student-with-cvi/

www.nfb.org/scholarships.

writers.nfb.org

unseen film.com

https://accessiblyapp.com/blog/web-accessibility-statistics/).

https://stephanieduesing.com/in-the-media.

https://dagbjortandresd.wixsite.com/livingwithcvi

https://thecviperspective.wordpress.com/home/

https://courses.csail.mit.edu/6.034f/ai3/rest.pdf

https://wp.towson.edu/akolesni/files/2024/10/Podcast-about-Al.wav