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 Benefit Holiday Concert
You are cordially invited to join us for winter cheer with an evening of holiday music performed by The Bellevue Community Band. Proceeds from this special concert will go directly to support Lighthouse Employee and [...]

Lighthouse Sponsors Blinded Veterans Association 64th Conference
The Lighthouse for the Blind, Inc. is pleased to sponsor the Blinded Veterans Association 64th Conference. President Kirk Adams and Director of Communications Melanie Wimmenauer will attend the 64th Blinded Veterans Association in Portland, OR [...]

