Jacob Bolotin

The Distinguished Educator of Blind Students Award by Carla McQuillan.

The Nineteenth Annual Dr. Jacob Bolotin Awards by Everett Bacon.

The two thousand twenty-six Jacobus tenBroek Award by Pam Allen.

The two thousand twenty-six National Federation of the Blind Scholarship Class by Kade Mendez.

Left to right, Ka Lee, Anne Cunningham, Angela Frederick, Joyce Brooks, Shelley Smith, Mary Ann Jaouhy, Sucheta Narang, David Sexton, Brooke Sexton, Julie Mizel, Gigi Franklin, Chancy Fleet, Allison Bills, Steve Jacobson, Jessica Beecham, Shanna Hamilton, Angela Wolf, Everett Bacon, and Mary Ellen Jernigan."

Our final agenda item of the morning is always a special moment at our convention.

This is the Nineteenth Annual Dr. Jacob Belotan Awards.[audience applauding] We're honored to, uh, continue the tradition of Jacob Bolotin and now the almost two-decade, uh, legacy that these awards have brought to our movement.

Examples of past winners continuing to make a difference are all over this convention.