Braille Monitor - June 2020

Vol. 63, No. 6, June 2020 Illustration: Moving Forward and Staying in Place: How Innovation Gets it Done Navigating Uncharted Territory: Moving Toward our First Virtual Convention with a Little Less Stress and a Little More Yesssssss by Jessica Beecham Learning in the Time of COVID-19: The Impact on Blind Students of Current Guidance Issued by the US Department of Education Regarding Students with Disabilities by Carlton Anne Cook Walker A US Diplomat with an Extraordinary Global View by Marc Lacey with Prior Beharry Why I am a Federationist, and How the National Federation of the Blind of Illinois was Born by Rami Rabby Of Sleeping Dogs and Prancing Ponies: It's Time for the NFB to Act on Discrimination Against Blind Hams by Curtis Willoughby A Hobby that Taught me the Value of an Education, the Need for Self-discipline, How to Raise Money, and the Value of Networking by Gary Wunder Audible Traffic Signals: The Technology, the Reality, and the Possibilities by Curtis Chong It's Habit-Forming by Judy Sanders Harry Gawith, Hardworking Sighted Federationist by Ramona Walhof Leave a Legacy My Time at NFB EQ 2019 by Maura Loberg Convention Memory Minute Contest: Share Your First Convention Experience by Tracy Soforenko The Give 20 Campaign by Tracy Soforenko Celebrating the 2020 Braille Readers Are Leaders Winners Recipes Monitor Miniatures