VisionServe Alliance 2025 Annual Award Recipients
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
VisionServe Alliance Honors Patrick Tuttle with the 2025 Roxann Mayros Organizational Champion Award
Advocacy, Tenacity, Vision
VisionServe Alliance is thrilled to honor Patrick Tuttle, Senior Vice President of Operations and New Product Development at Envision Dallas, for his exemplary leadership, empathy, and commitment to the advancement of people with low vision and blindness.
The Board of Directors of VisionServe Alliance created the Roxann Mayros Champion Award to highlight the legacy of her service to the field and as the first CEO of VisionServe Alliance, the first national association of non-profit organizational leaders dedicated to improving services and opportunities for people of all ages living with blindness and low vision.
Arriving at Envision Dallas in November 2023, Patrick launched a project of enormous scale and complexity: the creation of a progressive and comprehensive blind agency campus. The recently completed state-of-the-art facility features early childhood development services, a low vision clinic with rehabilitative services, a workforce innovation, a fine arts teaching facility, a Foundation, and manufacturing.
“Patrick’s advocacy and vision, together with his tenacity and deep understanding of the needs of the blindness and Low vision community, have literally transformed how this highly respected organization serves its community,” said Lee Nasehi, President and CEO of VisionServe Alliance.
The 2025 Roxann Mayros Organizational Champion Award will becommemorated at the Annual Awards Lunch on Wednesday, April 30th at VisionServe Alliance’s Adapt and Thrive: Igniting Change in a Dynamic World 2025 Leadership Conference in Scottsdale, AZ. Learn more about all of VisionServe Alliance’s 2025 Annual Award recipients and our annual conference.
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.