***Feb. 27:  Dr. Frederic K. Schroeder, an internationally recognized blind
educator and scholar on blindness and disability policy who worked as a high
level political appointee in the US Dept. of Education under President Clinton
Mar. 6:  Priscilla Ching, a blind cane travel teacher who will address her
personal struggle as a minority within a minority within a minority (blind,
Asian-American, woman) and her controversial professional struggle as a BLIND
travel teacher for the blind
ALSO
Chris Foster, a blind guide dog user who will discuss travel, his career in
the assistive technology field, his encounters with discrimination, and his
personal story in the blind civil rights movement
Mar. 13:  Dr. Cathy Kudlick, a CAL graduate and blind historian who will talk
about what it is like to be "in-between"-not sighted but not quite blind (or
not "totally blind" as the term goes)-and her personal history in the blind
civil rights movement
***Mar. 20:  Dr. Harold Snider, a Ph.D. from Oxford who could not find a
teaching job on the basis that he is BLIND - his story is filled with
confrontation, adventure, high-level political positions and contacts, and
much more
***Mar. 27:   SPRING  BREAK - Just thought I'd point it out
Apr. 10:  Bryan Bashin, a CAL graduate who has been historian, journalist,
writer, editor, and now blind executive director of a prominent agency serving
the blind in Sacramento (The Society for the Blind); as a former journalist,
he will discuss blindness in the media and a resolution he wrote which sparked
national controversy when the organized blind took on the Walt Disney
Corporation in 1997
***Apr. 17:  most likely -- the only iffy speaker date -- Joanne Wilson, the
current Commissioner of the Rehabilitation Services Administration in the US
Dept. of Education under President Bush; a blind teacher, wife, and mother,
she founded a training center run by blind people and is a pioneer of the
blind civil rights movement and a master teacher, administrator, and activist
***May 1:  Dr. Marc Maurer, a blind lawyer from Notre Dame who has served as
President of the largest organization of blind people in the U.S.-the National
Federation of the Blind; Dr. Maurer is nationally and internationally
recognized for his leadership in the blind civil rights movement and will
discuss not only his career on the frontlines but also the future of our civil
rights movement
There may be other guest speakers, but this is the current schedule of those
confirmed.