VisionServe Alliance 2024 Annual Award Recipients
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
VisionServe Alliance Announces its 2024 Annual Award Recipients
Celebrating Industry Excellence and Innovation
VisionServe Alliance is honored to recognize exceptional leaders in the BVI field who distinguish themselves through their creativity, commitment, and dedication to improving the lives of the people with blindness and low vision.
Awards are being commemorated during the VisionServe Alliance’s Focused on the Future 2024 Leadership Conference in Kansas City, MO.“
This year’s award recipients have made significant and lasting contributions,” said Lee Nasehi, VisionServe Alliance President, and CEO. “They set the bar for the entire field and through their insight, courage and determination, they inspire us all to reach higher, work more innovatively, and dream bigger.”
VisionServe Alliance congratulates our twelve incredible Annual Award recipients:
Lifetime Achievement Awards
Selected by VisionServe Alliance’s Board of Directors in recognition of exceptional lifetime contributions in service to individuals who are blind or visually impaired:
- Don LoGuidice
Retired, Past CEO of CABVI, Founding member, VisionServe Alliance - Kevin Lynch
Retiring President, and CEO, National Industries for the Blind - Nancy D. Miller
Retiring Executive Director & CEO, Visions/Services for the Blind and Visually Impaired - Dan Spoone
Interim Executive Director, and past President, American Council of the Blind
Scientific Lifetime Achievement Award
- Dr. John E. Crews
Principal Investigator, VisionServe Alliance Big Data Project Consultant, College of Optometry at the Ohio State University, and past Health Scientist, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Lifetime Achievement Awards will be commemorated during the April 14th Opening Ceremony of VisionServe Alliance’s leadership conference.
Excellence in Leadership Award
Recognizes exemplary leadership demonstrated by an Executive Director, President, or CEO of a member organization. Award recipients are listed on a print/Braille plaque in the Hall of Fame – Leaders and Legends of the Blindness Field located at the American Printing House for the Blind in Louisville, Kentucky.
- Tammy Owen
President & CEO, VIA
Cathy Holden Excellence in Managerial Leadership Award
Honors a high-level employee of a member organization who has made an impact on, contribution to, or led staff in the pursuit of organizational excellence.
- Melody Bettenhausen
COO, Ensight Skills Center - Jenice Heck
COO, Lighthouse Louisiana - Jennifer Lauer
Director of Adult Services, St. Louis Society for the Blind and Visually Impaired
Roxann Mayros Organizational Champion Award
Recognizes a member of senior management whose cultivation of structure, systems, and best practices advances the efforts of an organization distinguishing itself in the field of blindness and low vision.
- Alison Clougherty
Co-Founder, Executive Director of Programs & Services, Blind Early Services TN (BEST - Stacy Cornwall
Co-Founder, Executive Director of Finance & Administration, Blind Early Services TN (BEST) - Leslie Jones
Executive Director, The Filomen M. D’Agostino Greenberg Music School
The Excellence in Leadership Award, Cathy Holden Excellence in Managerial Leadership Award, and Roxann Mayros Organizational Champion Awards will be commemorated during the April 16th Annual Awards Luncheon at VisionServe Alliance’s 2024 leadership conference.
Learn more about our Annual Awards, including past winners and annual conference.
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About VisionServe Alliance
VisionServe leads an alliance of 130+ member organizations that vastly improve the lives of people with blindness and low vision. VisionServe Alliance collaborates with leaders to enhance the health of the BVI field by maximizing engagement with life-changing vision rehabilitation training and services, addressing strategic issues impacting the field, cultivating leadership, enhancing management systems, sharing best practices, increased capacity-building and sustainability, informing public policy, developing groundbreaking data reports highlighting profound issues impacting people with blindness and vision loss, and more. VisionServe Alliance also leads the Aging and Vision Loss National Coalition (AVLNC), a consortium of leaders advocating for the needs of adults 65+ with blindness and low vision. Learn more at VisionServeAlliance.org.
About VisionServe Alliance Annual Awards and Leadership Conference
VisionServe Alliance bestows its Annual Awards on leaders and innovators in the BVI field. Leaders receive Annual Awards in several categories at our annual conference.
Press inquiries may be directed to SDraddy@VisionServeAlliance.org