Malibu Barron
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Benjamin Suits Baer
Benjamin has long been passionate about education and equal access. Born into a hearing family, he did not know ASL until college and found Deaf culture while at Rochester Institute of Technology. He received his master’s degree in Higher Education and Student Affairs Administration from Canisius College emphasizing his thesis on student affairs professionals and […]
Kate Lewandowski, M.S.
Kate Lewandowski has over 12 years of experience advising and coordinating access for deaf students in the postsecondary environment. Kate’s passion for outreach on topics of disability justice, access, and inclusion is a deeply personal endeavor which stems from her experiences navigating systems as a deaf student. Kate earned her master’s degree in Disability Services […]
Karla Giese, EdD
For Karla, deaf education has been a way of life. Born hearing, Karla began losing her hearing as an infant and became profoundly deaf at a young age. Her parents chose to raise her with an emphasis on spoken language, using speech therapy, hearing aids, and FM systems while being educated in the mainstream setting. By middle […]
Michelle Morris
Michelle Morris is a global citizen, DEI advocate, and storyteller. Currently, she serves as Director of Communications for the National Deaf Center on Postsecondary Outcomes. In this role she leads strategic communications to support people on their path to #deafsuccess. Over the past 10 years, she has worked in both academic and nonprofit institutions dedicated […]
Crescenciano Garcia
Crescenciano has provided access and served as a communication bridge via sign and spoken language interpreting for close to three decades. He has worked in multiple settings: business, academic, entertainment and religious. In 2015, Crescenciano became the only multi-lingual, multi-cultural sign language interpreter to have also played one on television, on a then-popular sign language […]
Brit Macias
Brit Macias is a design maven who works in multiple media, and loves to solve problems. She has a bachelor’s degree in design and management from the University of Quebec in Montreal, Canada. She also studied animation in Paris, France. Since 2013, Brit had been working as a multimedia graphic designer, with 2D motion design […]
Chase Burton
Growing up in southern California, steeped in movie culture with major shoots happening often in his hometown, Chase Burton has had a lifelong fascination with filmmaking. He lived in Australia for one year and studied film history & film theory. Returning to Los Angeles, he studied cinematography & screenwriting, earning a Bachelor’s Degree in Cinema […]
William Albright
William Albright believes that the point of life is to live without unnecessary struggle. With a software development background, William uses computers to solve problems at scale but is also eager for human solutions. He found this balance in a National Deaf Center approach to postsecondary outcomes: Deafverse, a Choose-Your-Own-Adventure game that teaches Deaf kids […]
Kent Turner
A game designer who aims to level up self-advocacy skills for deaf youth.
Sarah Brown
Sarah Brown became a certified sign language interpreter while pursuing her bachelor’s degree in Human Resource Counseling with an emphasis on deaf communities. After over 20 years buried deep in the profession of community interpreting, she’s thrilled to be at the National Deaf Center where she finds reasons to use technology in new ways to […]
Carrie Lou Bloom, PhD
As a deaf person who grew up in the deaf community, Dr. Carrie Lou Bloom’s professional expertise is steeped in her lived experience. A nationally-recognized educational researcher, she is an Assistant Professor of Practice in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy at UT Austin. She co-directs the National Deaf Center on Postsecondary Outcomes and […]
