Jen Smith, Foundation Board President
Jen Smith has 20 years of experience leading and managing traditional, digital, and emerging technology projects for nonprofit, government, and for-profit organizations. She’s passionate about accessibility and has been working on making digital spaces more inclusive since 2007. Before becoming the Director of Accessibility for Strategic Initiatives in Visa’s Design organization, she served as a Principal Program Manager of Accessibility at Microsoft and a Senior Accessibility Subject Matter Expert at JP Morgan Chase. She’s also served as a subject matter expert and strategist while a contractor at the Centers for Disease Control. She started her career as an on-air newscaster with an NPR affiliate station in Oklahoma City after graduating from the University of Oklahoma with a degree in broadcast journalism. Since that time, she has definitely taken roads less traveled and moved around the country, living in three of the four continental U.S. time zones.
Lighthouse Legacy Society
The Lighthouse Legacy Society honors individuals who support Seattle Lighthouse for the Blind Foundation and our mission through a planned gift. Common tools for making a planned gift include: Bequest: Naming an organization in [...]
The Power of Your Gift
Charitable gifts create opportunities for The Lighthouse for the Blind, Inc.’s employees. In this report, you have seen examples of those opportunities, from the accomplishments of our outstanding Employees of the Year to the successful [...]
Expansion and Accomplishments
While FY 2012 was a challenging year, The Lighthouse for the Blind, Inc. had several milestone achievements as we strove to accomplish our strategic goals and increase opportunities for people who are blind, Deaf-Blind, [...]
