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APRIL 20, 2013

Earlier today, I attended the American Foundation for the Blind’s (AFB) National Leadership Conference in Chicago where I received the 2013 Migel Medal. The Migel Medal, often called the highest honor in the blindness field, is awarded annually to one or two individuals whose careers exemplify exceptional accomplishments in the field.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2009

While I was at the ATIA conference in Florida, our Director of Marketing was in Washington DC at another conference. But, it's not just in Washington DC. Our staff are all over the country and the world spreading the word. Betsy Burgess got to run into Senator Harkin, who exclaimed "I love Bookshare!"

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JANUARY 27, 2008

I just got back from the ATIA conference, which included meetings of the National Instructional Materials Accessibility Standard (NIMAS) committees. Right after the award for B4E, I gave a keynote at the NCTI conference in DC that went over well.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2009

Just spent a week in Washington DC doing all kinds of things, including actual lobbying (it's fun!) I recently blogged about seeing David Wiley's talk about Flat World Knowledge, the open content textbook company (for-profit, but giving away the digital versions of their textbooks for free under CC licenses), at the BYU ESR conference.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Today, I gave a presentation on human rights in DC, with a focus on our work with truth commissions. I recently spoke at the Silicon Valley Human Rights Conference , where I talked about technology for human rights defenders. I’m thinking a great deal these days about human rights and about doing more for the field.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2005

In early October, I'll be heading to Washington DC for a board meeting of the Social Enterprise Alliance , the group that promotes social enterprise among nonprofits, and then on to Seattle for a board meeting of RAF Technology, Inc., a tech company that Dave Ross and I founded in 1989.

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APRIL 19, 2009

I began my travels in Cambodia, where the HRP was asked to participate in a conference that brought together experts who could advise and train Afghan human rights groups documenting human rights violations – or those who planned to do so in the future. The current conflict in Afghanistan has been ongoing since 2001.

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