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Bukach, Nadia

Nadia Bukach is a clinical M.S.W. student at Virginia Commonwealth University and the Mellon Foundation Social Welfare History Graduate Fellow at VCU Libraries. She earned her B.A. in Geography from the University of Richmond in 2010, and a certificate in massage therapy in 2012. She served as GIS technician at the University of Richmond’s Geospatial…

Jean E. Lokerson (1937-2016)

Jean E. Lokerson, Ph.D. was an influential educator who devoted her life to the field of learning disabilities. Lokerson began her career in the 1960s, at a critical moment in the disability rights movement in the US. She became deeply involved in multiple organizations lobbying for improved education for children with learning disabilities.

Watts, Lucian Louis (1888 – 1974)

Lucian Louis Watts was a Virginia statesman who advocated for government services to support blind citizens. As the first Executive Secretary of the Virginia Department for the Blind and Visually Impaired, he promoted campaigns to prevent blindness, oversaw the development of educational programs for blind adults, and was instrumental in the introduction of sight-saving classes for children with impaired vision in Virginia’s public schools.