Press Release

March 2025

For Immediate Release

Contact: Jen Goulden, Chair
Braille Authority of North America
613-552-4191; chair@brailleauthority.org

The Braille Authority of North America (BANA) will hold its 2025 spring meeting in Austin, TX, on May 6 through 8. This meeting will be hosted by the Association for Education and Rehabilitation of the Blind and Visually Impaired (AER), a BANA member organization.

The BANA meeting will take place at the Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired, which is located at 1100 W 45th St, Austin, TX 78756. On Tuesday, May 6, and Wednesday, May 7, the meeting will be held from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM. On Thursday, May 8, BANA will meet from 9:00 AM till noon. 

Items on the Board’s spring agenda include a review of formal reports from BANA’s technical committees, such as Nemeth, Braille Formats, and Tactile Graphics, as well as its general committees and task forces, such as the General Committee on UEB, and the General Committee on Electronic Braille. BANA members will act on recommendations and will issue committee charges when appropriate.

This semi-annual face-to-face meeting follows BANA’s fall meeting, which was hosted by the National Braille Association in Colorado Springs, CO. The officers of BANA for 2025 were elected at that meeting and are as follows:

Chair: Jen Goulden (CNIB)

Vice-Chair: Wendy Buckley (Perkins School for the Blind)

Secretary: Amber Pearcy (National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled)

Treasurer: Danette Johnson (Hadley)

 

Interested parties are invited to attend and observe the BANA Board’s spring 2025 face-to-face meeting. If you are interested in being an in-person observer, please contact BANA Chair Jen Goulden at 613-552-4191 or by email at chair@brailleauthority.org no later than April 30, 2025.

The mission of the Braille Authority of North America is to assure literacy
for tactile readers through the standardization of braille and/or tactile graphics.