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20210223-leadership conference day 3 breakout 3A-CCVA panel

March 2, 2021

Kim Charlson, Immediate Past President, ACB, Watertown, MA (Moderator); Blake Reid, Director of the Samuelson-Glushko Technology Law & Policy Clinic, Boulder, CO; Carl Richardson, co-Chair, Audio Description Project, Brighton, MA; & Karen Peltz Strauss, National Disability Advocate, Washington, DC

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20210223-leadership conference day 3 breakout 2B-Medicare low vision aides bill

March 2, 2021

Jeff Thom, ACB Advocacy Steering Committee Chair (Moderator); & Joseph Nahra, Director of Government Relations, Powers Law Firm and Coordinator, Independence Through Enhancement of Medicare and Medicaid (ITEM) Coalition, Washington, DC

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20210223-leadership conference day 3 breakout 2A-Broadband adoption

March 2, 2021

Clark Rachfal, ACB Director of Advocacy & Governmental Affairs, Alexandria, VA (Moderator); Cindy Hollis, ACB Membership Services Coordinator, Flat Rock, MI; Zachary Bastian, Manager, Strategic Alliances, Verizon Communications, Washington DC; Jacquelyn “Jackie” Puente, Executive Director, External Affairs, Comcast NBCUniversal, Washington, DC; & Troy Otillio, CEO, Aira, San Diego, CA

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20210223-leadership conference day 3 breakout 1B-Health and wellness

March 2, 2021

Pat Sheehan, ACB Board Member, Silver Spring, MD (Moderator); & Badar Tareen, Civil rights Analyst, Office of Civil Rights, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, DC

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20210223-leadership conference day 3 breakout 1A-FCC disability office

March 2, 2021

Clark Rachfal, ACB Director of Advocacy & Governmental Affairs, Alexandria, VA (Moderator); Diane Burstein, Deputy Bureau Chief, Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau, Federal Communications Commission, Washington, DC; Will Schell, Attorney Advisor, Disability Rights Office, Federal Communications Commission, Washington, DC

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20210223-leadership conference day 3-PM general session

March 2, 2021

Clark Rachfal, ACB Director of Advocacy & Governmental Affairs finishes up the Legislative seminar with a chat of several ACB Blindness Partners, followed by a  Wrap up of the Leadership conference with ACB president Dan Spoone and feedback from attendees of the virtual event.

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20210223-leadership conference day 3-AM general session

March 2, 2021

Clark Rachfal, ACB Director of Advocacy & Governmental Affairs, Alexandria, VA (Moderator); & Sachin Pavithran, Executive Director, U.S. Access Board,  Providence, UT

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20210222-leadership conference day 2 breakout 3B-Services for older Americans with vision loss

March 2, 2021

Jeff Thom, President, Alliance on Aging and Vision Loss, Sacramento, CA (Moderator); Mark Richert, ACB First Vice President, Falls Church, VA; Pris Rogers, co-Chair, Funding & Policy Goal Committee, National Coalition on Aging and Vision Loss, Rogersville, TN

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20210222-leadership conference day 2 breakout 3A-Autonomous vehicle industry panel

March 2, 2021

Ron Brooks, ACB Member, Phoenix, AZ (Moderator); Eric Danko, Director of Federal Affairs, Cruise, Washington, DC;, George Ivanov, Head of International Policy & government Affairs, Waymo, San Carlos, CA; & Dave Furukawa, co-Founder, Foresight Augmented Reality, Atlanta, GA.

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20210222-leadership conference day 2 breakout B2-Rehabilitation

March 2, 2021

Doug Powell, Chair, ACB Rehab Issues Task Force, Falls Church, VA (Moderator); Lee Nasehi, President & CEO, VisionServe Alliance, Winter Park, FL; Kelly Buckland, Executive Director, National Council on Independent Living, Washington, DC; & Bill Robinson, President, National Council of State Agencies for the Blind, Lansing MI

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