[NLA] Alert: Is the NIFL Advisory Board Just the Beginning?

[Janet Isserlis]

Linda and all,

I appreciate your comments, Linda, way back when at the Literacy 
Summit.  I also feel, though, that terms like "eliminate illiteracy" 
run counter to the deeper seated issues that many of us name in doing 
advocacy, that is, in making the issue about increasing access to 
literacy and literacy education for all.  On the one hand, maybe it's 
only language, but language, in many cases, is all we have.  Anything 
we can do to advocate from a strengths-based position, to not 
medicalize literacy or its lack, I think, generally strengthens the 
other larger project we have before us, which is to educate policy 
makers, funders and people around the block.

Janet Isserlis


>..  Alone, volunteers cannot eradicate illiteracy and alone 
>volunteers cannot sustain a national effort to advocate for a 
>national policy to eradicate illiteracy.  Our organizations have an 
>important role to play, but we need someone to facilitate the work 
>(mostly volunteer in nature) of these organizations.  Corporations 
>pay folks to advocate for them.  While I doubt our field could match 
>what corporations do, maybe our organizations might be able to 
>afford some folks (in some capacity) to facilitate this much needed 
>work.
>

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