In early June, I hung up my hat as admission officer and disability liaison to the admission office of Brown University. Four thousand application later, I wondered what could be my legacy beyond the wake of decisions-past, and more importantly how could I use this knowledge in Project Eye-To-Eye.

In an effort to synthesize admissions experience and mentoring, Project Eye-To-Eye will now be incorporating college mentoring into its service model. We feel that the college process need not be a teachable moment lost. Hence, we hope to provide our mentees and Project Eye-To-Eye families resources on how to approach the college process with power of the LD mind, and use this time as a metacognitive growing experience.

In addition, Project Eye-To-Eye will this year begin providing specific training in metacognition to all our mentors and mentees.

Now as December approaches, with my new Director of Project Eye-To-Eye hat, I plan to carry the torch of mentorship into the hyper competitive realm of college admissions.

Between November and June Project Eye-To-Eye National was birthed into the world. With enough seed money, Project Eye-To-Eye came into existence and on July 1st and began the difficult process of determining which sites from our grassroots network we would incorporate into the national coalition. After much deliberation we are please to announce that Project Eye-To-Eye has incorporated three new sites (Vassar College, NYU, and The Delaware Valley Friends School).

Adding these three new sites to our founding site at Brown University, we will quadruple the number of people we work with. This means that four times as many students will be given a voice. Four times as many students are being empowered to celebrate their difference. Four times as many people will join a community of learners that unite in challenging socialize concepts of normalcy.

In September, Project Eye-To-Eye will begin implementing its national training model and a year long out-come based evaluation. Details to follow.

And in this time of inception, it would be a huge oversight not to mention Sam Donnelly. Sam is twelve years old and first heard Jonathan Mooney speak at his school two years ago. Sam states that after that talk, Jonathan changed his life. Jonathan gave Sam hope, but it is Jonathan and I who wish to thank Sam.

In November of last year, Jonathan and Sam were reunited and to Jonathan's surprise Sam presented Project Eye-To-Eye with its first grant, $250, Sam's allowance money saved for the past two years. Sam said, "Project Eye-To-Eye gave me hope and changed my life, and I want to help it exist for other kids."

Sam gave us hope and helps remind us the importance of this work. On behalf of Project Eye-To-Eye, we thank you Sam.

LD Access Foundation, Chuck Ramat, The Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation William Taubman, The Daniel M. and Brooke G. Neidich Foundation Barbar Groome Gordon, The Tisch Foundation, Jonathan Mooney, The Warren P. and Ava S. Sewell Foundation, Lary Saper, Harold and Linda Koplewicz, Gideon Rothschild, Jerone and Maria Markowitz, Abby Modell, Randolph Cowen, Gail Propp, Phyllis Green, Sam Donnelly, Cynthia Wainwright Berger.