Introduce Yourself!
The ACB Candidates’ Page is a place where you can introduce yourself, post links to your social media pages, and where you can provide responses to the questions posed by the Board of Publications.
At this year’s hybrid convention, we will be electing five positions on our board of directors and three positions on the ACB Board of Publications. Questions for candidates are below. Please note: Your response to each question will be cut off at 300 words, and the BOP will not edit your responses for spelling or grammar mistakes.
Questions for Candidates
- Introduce yourself, and explain why you wish to serve as a director on the ACB Board of Directors or a member of the ACB Board of Publications.
- What have been your strongest contributions to ACB at the national, state or special-interest affiliate, ACB Community, and/or local chapter levels, and why are these significant?
- Like many not-for-profit, membership-driven organizations whose missions revolve around advocacy and support, ACB has chosen in recent years to adopt the core values of diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA). How does ACB’s stated mission of supporting people who are blind intersect with these core organizational values? If elected, what specific actions will you take to increase diversity, promote equity, encourage inclusion, and support accessibility within ACB, and how will you persuade members who are reluctant to embrace these principles to support DEIA as core ACB values?
- What is the most important challenge facing ACB? How will you work to address it?
Instructions for Candidates’ Page Submissions
You must be an ACB member in good standing.
Submissions must be sent electronically as either a Word document, text file, or in the body of an email. Your response to each of the four questions listed below should not exceed 300 words.
Share links to external web pages separately. For example, you might say, “Visit these links to learn more about me.”
Send your submission by e-mail, either pasted directly into your e-mail message or attached as a document formatted in Microsoft Word, to Sharon Lovering, [email protected]. Identify the subject of your e-mail message as “My Candidates Page.”
All candidates who submit information will also be invited to produce a promotional announcement to air on ACB Media.
All candidates who post information to the ACB Candidates’ Page will receive an invitation to participate in the ACB Candidates’ Forum June 19 at 8 p.m. Eastern time via Zoom and streaming on ACB Media. Join to meet the candidates, to ask questions and hear their responses. Please note: You must register as a candidate on the ACB Candidates’ Page to participate in the ACB Candidates’ Forum as a candidate.