[Jobs] Blind Accountants

[David Evans]

Dear Sir,

Gloria Mills Hicks, from the Florida State Affiliate worked for years for 
the IRS and operates her own tax rescue business now, and for years, in 
Tampa.
She is legally blind and would be a good person to ask, after April 15.
She is also the current State Treasurer for the State of Florida.

I placed her e-mail address in the "cc" field of this message.

David Evans, NFBF
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Denna Lambert" <dlambert at aristotle.net>
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Sent: Friday, March 30, 2007 6:59 AM
Subject: [Jobs] Blind Accountants


> Hi everyone:
>
> I wanted to know if anyone is aware of any blind accountants or finance
> professionals who would be willing to speak with me and some individuals
> from NASA management.  I am the student programs manager for some of the
> internship programs which includes the Workforce Recruitment Program. 
> We're
> in the final stages of placing and hiring students for the summer.  Being
> blind myself, I have experienced employment challenges that frustrated and
> often infuriated me when on the side of searching for a job.   But now 
> that
> I am on the other side of things, it is down right dismal and 
> disheartening.
> I am pushing for a number of very capable and competent blind students who
> are majors in accounting and finance.  The accounting hiring manager has
> this notion that deaf students are better and how could the blind even
> fathom being an accountant.  This particular division has a abnormally 
> large
> deaf population.  I now see why!  My hope is to work with the hiring 
> manager
> and senior management to provide them resources which would include blind
> professionals already in the field.  If I weren't involved and advocating
> for these blind students, at some level, I can totally see this particular
> individual picking a student who is less qualified just to avoid having to
> take a blind student.
>
> I am becoming fully aware of how discrimination really happens to the best
> of candidates.  We still have so much work to be done.
>
> Denna
>
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