Tuesday Topics:

Join Paul this week as he speaks with Scott Marshall, a personal mentor and friend.  They will spend two hours talking about Scott's experience in law school as a blind person, his work for ACB in the 80's, and other jobs he has done over the years.

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This week Janet Dickelman, Chair of the Convention Committee for ACB, will stop by to give us an update on this summer’s convention and talk a bit about future conventions that have been scheduled. We will also have an opportunity to learn a bit more about Janet herself, maybe find out some of her likes and dislikes and some of her life experiences.

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As things stand, it is the intention of ACB to hold elections during our virtual ACB convention! How will it work! Who gets to vote! How will nominations from the floor be handled? How will votes be tallied? What if there are more than two candidates and nobody gets a majority? These are just a few of the many questions that surround the issue of voting at our 2021 convention. Dan Spoone will be with us along with Voting Task Force co-chairs Jeff Thom and Patrick Sheehan and many others to talk about the voting process. What a way for Tuesday Topics to return!

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Paul’s guest this week is a former President of ACB, an expert on the ADA, Vice-President of the North American and Caribbean section of the World Blind Union and a former President of our California affiliate. Mitch Pomerantz did not grow up as an ACB member. We will explore how he came to ACB and what his arrival along with many others meant to our organization. If you would like to raise questions with Mitch or just discuss some of the areas he has expertise, join us.

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Paul welcomes the Director of the Division of Blind Services of the state of Florida, Robert Doyle. How does an agency that is doing well adapt when the pandemic essentially shuts it down? How are counselors retrained to do jobs from home and on line? Florida has more than fifteen local programs that deliver services to people who are blind. How do you measure their success or failure in a new and unfamiliar environment. And what about the Business Enterprise program many of whose facilities have been forced to close? These are just some of the questions we will explore. We will also look beyond the pandemic. Mr. Doyle is active on both national organizations of rehab leaders. We will see what role he sees them playing with the new administration. Of course we will also talk about WIOA. You will get a chance to ask your questions as well.

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What has a person who has worked with people who are blind all over the world gleaned about their job readiness. What are some of the characteristics that make success at work likely? Our guest this week on Tuesday Topics is in a unique position to answer these questions. She has devoted much of her career to working on transition and employment. Karen Wolffe has worked with the American Foundation for the Blind and has consulted with many countries and states. We will talk specifically about some work she has done for Florida over the past three to four years on the development of a new vocational evaluation tool specifically designed to measure the job readiness of people who have vision loss, and talk about work she is doing with the World Blind Union on employment.

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We are overjoyed to welcome back ACB'S President, Dan Spoone. We will talk about 2020, 2021 and will end with a discussion of the Voting Task Force. Dan must leave us to go to a meeting of that group so I thought we might use his discussion of where the group is and what plans there are to springboard a discussion of the whole voting issue for the last half hour of the show. Rick Morin, Larry Gassman and Katie Frederick will be among the team making our show happen.

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Episode Notes

This episode of Tuesday Topics has two for the price of one...... Debbie Hazelton and Cindy Hollis, perhaps the most popular presenter at state conventions this Fall and the heart and soul of the community radio revolution, join Paul to talk about their plans for Christmas 2020 and New Year's 2021 on ACB Radio and the Community calls. Cindy Hollis is Paul's first repeat guest. Cindy and Debbie also tell us about their childhoods and career and how they got involved with ACB.

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Ninety miles off the coast of the United States is the island of Cuba. 11.3 million people, according to 2020 figures, live on an island which, since the early 1960s, has had a communist government. Paul's guests on this episode of Tuesday Topics grew up there and give us a glimpse of what life was like for people who are blind in Cuba. Roberto and Danays Perez now live in Miami. Roberto has become quite a tech star here and his wife, Danays, had an amazing musical career in Europe. Paul had the honor of attending their wedding. Roberto is currently treasurer of the Miami Beach chapter of the Florida Council of the Blind. Both Roberto and Danays are thoughtful and caring people who are blind with a compelling story. Adjusting to a new country, a new style of government and a whole new set of expectations is not easy! An incredible story of triumph and a touching love story!

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Episode Notes

In this episode of Tuesday Topics, Mark Richert is Paul's guest. Mark has had a long and distinguished career working in the disability field. He is currently First Vice President of the American Council of the Blind and interim Executive Director of the Association for the Education and Rehabilitation of the Blind and Visually Impaired (AER). Mark talks about his experience, the state of the blindness scene and where people who are blind might work to change the future.

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