VisionServe Alliance Honors Nancy D. Miller
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
VisionServe Alliance Honors Nancy D. Miller with the 2024 Lifetime Achievement Award – Building Consensus, Breaking Barriers, and Changing Lives
VisionServe Alliance is thrilled to recognize Nancy D. Miller, Retiring Executive Director and CEO, Visions/Services for the Blind and Visually Impaired, for her exceptional leadership in the BVI field, and a career defined by creativity, commitment, and dedication to improving the lives of people with blindness and low vision.
For more than 50 years, Nancy D. Miller has worked tirelessly to improve health and quality of life for people with vision loss. Serving as Executive Director/CEO of VISIONS/Services for the Blind and Visually Impaired for three decades, she continually expanded programs and services. She advocates for increased awareness and funding of vision rehabilitation through a broad range of partnerships and collaborations with state officials and lawmakers, and through her work as Co-Chair of Public Awareness for the Aging and Vision Loss National Coalition.
“Nancy’s leadership has positively impacted countless lives at the local, regional, and national level. Her dedication to older adults living with blindness and other visual impairments, and her work on behalf of blind caregivers inspires us all. Nancy is a powerful advocate whose voice has raised crucial awareness of life-changing vision rehabilitation and other services,” said Lee Nasehi, President and CEO of VisionServe Alliance.“
We extend our deepest gratitude for Nancy’s unique leadership and all her continued advocacy and support of people with blindness and low vision. Lifetime Achievement Award winners will be commemorated on Sunday evening, April 14th, during the Opening Ceremony of VisionServe Alliance’s Focused on the Future 2024 Leadership Conference in Kansas City, MO. Learn more about our Annual Awards and 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.
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 leadership conference.
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