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VIDBE - Q Volume 63 Issue 1
President's Message
Amy Parker , Ed .D. & COMS
Assistant Professor
Portland State University
atp5@pdx.edu
Dear DVIDB Community,
Welcome to a new year and to newly elected leadership within our compact but
vibrant division in the Council for Exceptional Children! As President of DVIDB , I want to
congratulate new members of our board and returning members. Nicole Johnson is
serving as our President - Elect, Tessa McCarthy is our Secretary, and Lane McKittrick is
our Treasurer. Katie Farrand continues to serve as both our representative wi thin the
CEC Assembly and our capable editor of Visual Impairment and Deafblind Education
Quarterly . Newly elected Directors include Karen Vay Walker, Joan Allison, Chris
Martin, Angel Perez, and Carol Rimka. Continuing Directors include Adam Graves,
Karen Koehler, Kathleen Stanfa. Our student ambassadors are Brittany Larkin and
Abby Gifford. I'd like to share special thanks to our Past - President Tiffany Wild for her
leadership. Our board members also thank Christine Bischke, Danene Fast, Mackenzie
Saviano , and Julie Bardin, who served as Directors for the 2016 - 2017 term. Our
