Vol. 67, No. 11                                                                       December 2024                                                          Contents   Convention Bulletin 2025   Announcing a New Editor and Why It Should Matter to You by Mark Riccobono   Reflections on and Appreciation for My Time as Editor by Gary Wunder   Neither Dog nor Cane nor Blindness Should Deprive Us of a Ride by Chris Danielsen   A Mountain, a Waterfall, a Cracked Pool, and a Christmas Tree Color Wheel by Ray McGeorge   Beyond the Reason Why by Edwin Cooney   Leading Courageously in Art: Poetry, Sensibility, and Aesthetics of Sharing Our Unseen Stories by Set Hernandez   A Blind, Black Education Pioneer by Peggy Chong   GAAD Is Good – But it’s not Enough by Peter Slatin   From the President’s Desk by Mark Riccobono   The 2025 Washington Seminar Approaches by Kyle Walls   A Proclamation on Blind Americans Equality Day, 2024   To See and Not to See: Helping Students with Cortical Visual Impairment Access the Resources They Need by Stephanie Duesing   Today’s Artificial Intelligence: Our Future for Reading and Writing STEM? by Al Maneki   Announcing an Exciting Update to the NFB 2025 Scholarship Program by Cayte Mendez   2025 Writing Contest Guidelines by Officials of the Writers’ Division     Photo and Web List Issue: [December 2024] Photos: Convention Bulletin photos (these are already in article) Mark Riccobono Gary Wunder Chris Danielsen Ray McGeorge Edwin Cooney Set Hernandez Peggy Chong Peter Slatin Kyle Walls Stephanie Duesing Al Maneki Cayte Mendez Writers’ Division   Web Links: www.nfb.org www.nfbnet.org Facebook.com/nationalfederationoftheblind YouTube.com/NationsBlind www.nfb.org/planned-giving www.nfb.org/make-gift nfb.org/convention https://nfb.org/sites/default/files/images/nfb/publications/books/wamt/wam15.htm) https://nfb.org/sites/default/files/images/nfb/publications/bm/bm10/bm1001/bm100103.htm nfb.org/rideshare https://www.nfb.org/presidential-releases nfb.org/advocacy nfb.org/Washington-seminar Bookshare.org www.cviscotland.org https://www.perkins.org/our-work/cvi/by-the-numbers/ https://www.perkins.org/resource/my-experience-navigating-the-transition-from-high-school-to-college-as-a-student-with-cvi/ www.nfb.org/scholarships. writers.nfb.org unseen film.com https://accessiblyapp.com/blog/web-accessibility-statistics/). https://stephanieduesing.com/in-the-media. https://dagbjortandresd.wixsite.com/livingwithcvi https://thecviperspective.wordpress.com/home/ https://courses.csail.mit.edu/6.034f/ai3/rest.pdf https://wp.towson.edu/akolesni/files/2024/10/Podcast-about-Al.wav