About Us : VITP Advisory Board
The goal of the Advisory Board is to provide input, service, support, advocacy, and direction for the NCCU-VITP and its various educational components. The individuals on the Board meet at least twice per year. The VITP Advisory Board is composed of representatives from various consumer groups and agency officials who have a vested interest in meeting the needs of visually impaired citizens of North Carolina and the surrounding region.
The Advisory Board offers advice on matters such as long-range planning, user needs, and resource development. Organization heads and members of the Governing Board appoint the members. Generally the Advisory Board members will be individuals whose professional responsibilities include Vision Partnership programs.
Current members of the Advisory Board for the 2007-2008 academic year are:
VITP Advisory Board Co-Chair
Dr. Deborah Hatton - Research Scientist, FPG Child Development Institute at the University of North Carolina
VITP Advisory Board Co-Chair
Mr. Tom Winton - Visual Impairment/Technology Consultant, NC Department of Public Instruction
Ms. Miriam Dixon - Blind Rehabilitation Teacher DSB Rehabilitation Center/President, Triangle Federation of the Blind (NFB)
Ms. Jan Fesperman - NC Division of Services for the Blind (DSB)
Ms. Cyndie Bennett - Superintendent, Office of Education Services (GMS)
Ms. Catherleen Thomas - NC Council of the Blind (ACB)
Mr. Herman Gruber - NC Federation of the Blind (NFB)
Mr. Rod Poole, COMS - Orientation & Mobility Specialist, Governor Morehead School (GMS)
Ms. Verdina Gillette - Parent of a child with deafblindness