The National Federation of the Blind of Oregon
2022 State Convention

• Greeting and announcements - Carla McQuillan, President, National Federation of the Blind of Oregon
• National report - Terri Rupp, President, National Federation of the Blind of Nevada
• Talking Book and Braille Library
• Oregon Commission for the Blind
• Parental Rights Legislation: Why it is Important and what we need to do - Carla McQuillan
• Voting workshop - Ryan McBee and Justin Harford

• Kaynote address; Natalie Charbonneau
• Announcements

• Health Care for All, Oregon - educate about and advocate for an equitable, affordable, comprehensive, high-quality, publicly funded universal healthcare system which will improve the lives of individuals, families, and communities across Oregon and throughout the United States. Lauri Hoagland, Southern Oregon Chapter Chair and retired social worker
• Terri Rupp is a certified health coach with Dr. seers wellness Institute. She is an accomplished marathon and ultramarathon runner, and long distance endurance tandem cyclist. She shares her passion and practice of living a healthy and active lifestyle through the four pillars of health: lifestyle, exercise, attitude, and nutrition. Learn tips and tricks on how easy and simple living an active and healthy lifestyle can be as a blind person.
• NaviLens: Empowering the Visually Impaired in Public and Personal Spaces - Come to this session to experience examples of public NaviLens codes and learn how to create your own free personal NaviLens codes to share with friends and family for use in the home and workspaces. NaviLens codes, sometimes called "QR codes on steroids", can be scanned using the free NaviLens app without the need to focus and from distances of 20 to 30 feet or more. NaviLens makes transit more accessible to the blind and visually impaired in many cities like New York and LA but will also soon be found in grocery stores in the US on some Kellogg's cereals. You'll also be given a set of free personal NaviLens codes and learn how to personalize and add these to items around your home to make them speak for themselves and/or link to accessible resources like videos, etc. Tim Fahlberg, Math teacher and NaviLens Evangelist

• Financial planning; Ed Lindbloom
• Tactile Printing; "I will bring along a ViewPlus Columbia embosser and will create and pass around a few simple graphics, including a US map. If anybody sends me some graphic, I'll print it at the meeting. Only thing I cannot use is something that belongs to some application I do not have. But I can print PDF, SVG, Word files. If you send me a jpg, png or other bit map file I will insert it in Word and print from Word. I can add braille to Word before printing." Dr. John Gardner
• The 10 minute presentation: How to turn terror into terrific. You have been asked to present at the conference. You have 10 minutes. This workshop will cover the basic format for a 10 minute presentation. Be prepared to share stories of what the NFB has meant to you, and the blind community. At the end of the workshop workshop, participants will have a general outline to use as a start for a terrific 10 minute talk. Lucas McQuillan

• Disaster Preparedness for the Low Vision: Disaster preparedness is different for those with limitations and different abilities. It is not one size fits all, all or nothing and does not need to be expensive. This presentation will include general disaster preparedness, food storage on a budget and "go Bags"; Andrea Barnhurst
• Navigation Aps; Nik Petersson
• Disability Rights of Oregon - Mission statement: We envision a society in which persons with disabilities have equality of opportunity, full participation, and the ability to exercise meaningful choice. Disability rights and other civil rights laws are rooted in a fundamental ideal: that every person, irrespective of their inherent differences, is equal—regardless of where we come from, how we worship, how we look, who we love, or whether we have a disability. Honoring our common humanity is a foundation for our vision of the world. - Presenter Justice Chukwu, Advocate

• Social

• Banquet
• Banquet speech, Terri Rupp, President, National Federation of the Blind of Nevada
• Scholarships

• Minutes of 2021 business meeting
• Financial report
• Legislative Seminar, March, 2023
• Other business
• Elections - Five officer and two board member positions are due for election in 2022. President Carla McQuillan, First Vice President Kristen Jocums, Second Vice President Justin Harford, Secretary Carina Comer, Treasurer Kirk Wagner, Board member Ryan McBee and Board Member Mary Anne Mendez
• Announcements