Former Young Quaker Voices Fellow to give Keynote address at WA Council of the Blind convention Friday October 27

 Abby Griffiths, the Young Quaker Voice Fellow from two years ago is doing the keynote speech Friday morning starting at9:50 am.at the WA Council of the Blind state convention.

Abby's speech will be streamed live on ACB Media 9 and probably will get turned into a podcast sometime after that. Here is a link with info about how to find the livestream https://www.acbmedia.org/home/streams/

9:50 AM

WCB, Putting Our Best Foot Forward!

Presenter: Abby Griffith

 Abby Griffith was born in Areka, a city in the Wolaita Sodo region of Ethiopia. In 2008, at the age of fourteen, she moved to the United States. Abby speaks three languages -- Amharic, Wolaita, and English-- and is the first college graduate in her biological family. She graduated Clark College in 2018 with an associate’s degree and earned her bachelor’s degree in 2021 in human development with a Certificate in Human Services Case Management and Administration from Washington State University, Vancouver.

In 2020, Abby became involved in advocating for transportation through Disability Rights Washington, where she was interviewed as part of a Transportation Access for Everyone story map project.

In 2022, Abby won the Holman Prize grant to implement a technology program for blind and visually impaired students in her hometown in Ethiopia. She enjoys advocating for non-drivers. Currently, Abby is the Bus Riders Unite! Community Organizer at OPAL Environmental Justice Oregon.

The Young Quaker Voices program of Quaker Voice on WA Public Policy has been renamed the Quaker Voice Legislative Advocacy Fellowship.  Applications are now open for the 2023-2024 fellowship. See Quaker Voice Legislative Advocacy Fellowship 

Other WCB convention events are also streamed on ACB Media 9 Friday and Saturday October 27-28. RantWoman just posted here what she considers most interesting

Wait: Scratch that.  There are other events starting at 8:45 am.  Friday and Saturday also on ACB Media 9. Special note for Quaker process nerds, if anyone is interested in how Blind people business meeting, check out ACB Media 9 Saturday afternoon at 1:30