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Team-Up for Textbooks: Volunteer to Help Students with Disabilities

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To learn more and get involved, please submit the Team-Up for Textbooks volunteer form or contact our staff via email: volunteer [at] Bookshare.org. Each volunteer effort makes a difference for a student with a disability today while also creating a lasting resource that will support students for years to come! Thank you for your support!

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Mayrie ReNae Annual Valentine's Day Scholarship

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If you wish to nominate someone, please contact Alisa Moore, our Volunteer Program Manager , this week! Each February, Bookshare staff will accept nominations for the Mayrie ReNae Annual Valentine's Day Scholarship throughout the first two weeks of the month and will announce the recipient. We miss you, Mayrie.

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The Davos Blur

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Every table conversation brings a new perspective and a new idea: whether it’s new knowledge, a great contact or a new extension to the idea under discussion. The newbies were a bit stunned by Davos, and were like kids in a candy store talking about the contacts they had made that would advance their work.

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Robin Seaman, Agent of Inclusion

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Robin was beloved by the hundreds, if not thousands, of people who had the honor of coming into direct contact with her. On February 16th in Los Altos, California, I shared these thoughts on Robin Seaman’s impact on the world with her family and friends at her Celebration of Life. That's the Robin we all collectively know personally.

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One very long weekend in New York City for Megan Price

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Several of us plan to remain involved in NYCLU’s proposed analyses and look forward to staying in contact with Sara and the other members of the team. The most challenging next step is acquiring disaggregated crime statistics for NYC, something we were surprised and frustrated was not readily available online. 4-6 (tomorrow!)

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SEA Chapters

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You can contact SEA's chapters and organizing groups on the SEA Chapter page. Louis, and our second one in Baltimore, and more are forming all the time. I know that a group is starting here in the San Francisco bay area, and I'm looking forward to joining it.

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Eliminating Blinding Trachoma

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The condition is highly communicable and easily spreads via contact with dirty clothes, hands and flies that are attracted to people’s eyes. In its advanced stage, called trichiasis, repeated re-infection causes scarring of the eyelid, which then turns inward, scraping the cornea with every blink.

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