Our Alumni
Lauren, our second grantee from Arkansas, is a graduate of Southside High School in Batesville, AR and has two siblings who have a significant hearing loss as well. She likewise comes highly recommended by her teachers and others she has worked with. Lauren has been involved in multiple school activities, including Spanish Club and Future Business Leaders of America. She competed in the state district competition in Accounting, won her school's accounting award, and is an Arkansas Scholar. Read more -->>
Ashley just finished her third year of college, and continues to do well; she's enjoying her time in college. She remains in Nursing School and is currently doing her clinicals. Read more -->>
Tania has been in New York since she graduated from Northwestern. She had two reporter internships last summer and fall, both at magazines (a law magazine and a tech magazine) and in January, 2012, she started working as a personal finance and investment reporter for a magazine called SmartMoney. Unfortunately it folded a few weeks ago. At the moment (2012) she's doing an internship at the Wall Street Journal, one of the most prestigious daily newspapers in the world. Read more -->>
Brooke graduated from the University of Michigan in Spring of 2012, with her degree in communications. She now works as a Project Coordinator at LLNS Healthcare Communications. LLNS is a pharmaceutical advertising agency (it is a subdivision of Omnicom) and deals with healthcare communications, in particular with promotion to healthcare professionals and patients. LLNS works with prescription products and medical devices among other things.Read more -->>
We are proud to say that Kylie was accepted to graduate school after completing college in three years, and decided to attend Ball State University's Doctor of Audiology program. She will start her four-year program in September, 2012.Read more -->>
Lindsay is doing well and is now (2012) an associate chemist at Consumer Testing Laboratories. She works on reviewing, verifying, and releasing reports that leave their lab to go to customers. She reports she's enjoying learning about the quality assurance/control side of the business. She also completed her masters of science in Leadership and Higher Education from John Brown University this year..Read more -->>
Megan has pursued a career in journalism. Currently (2012), she's in Germany doing public affairs work for the military. She's considering eventually going for a Masters in journalism.. Read more -->>
Gabriel finished his engineering program at RIT. Currently, he's in North Dakota, taking courses in Linguistics at the University of North Dakota. He's tentatively planning to go to Egypt to teach ASL for 8 months. Although Egypt has their own language, many of them want to learn ASL so they can come to the United States to study. Read
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Erin finished teaching fourth grade last year in Virginia Beach. During the year, she applied for, and was accepted in the Teach for America program for the next two years. She will be based in Detroit, and will start after her training in Philadelphia.Read
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Christine began a master's degree in Conservation Biology at Frostburg State University. Her thesis is on territoriality and aggression in Cerulean Warblers, a rare neotropical migrant that breeds in the United States, particularly in Appalachia. No published studies have been conducted in western Maryland, so she is among the first to do research there! This, along with habitat assessment, is how she is combining her love of biology, environmental science and animal behavior. She anticipates her master's in December, 2013.. Read more -->>
Soraya, of Gainesville, Florida, attended Miami-Dade Community College. She comes from a family of six children, four of whom are deaf or hard of hearing, with a single mother. Her hearing loss was diagnosed while she was in third grade, and she's dedicated her life to succeed in spite of it. Initially she was mainstreamed, but spent her last two years in high school at the Florida School for the Deaf with her deaf siblings. Soraya was described by one of her teachers there as having "overcome tremendous odds... with grace and dignity", and being "the kind of student that every teacher dreams of having." She was on her high school's honor roll and maintained a straight 'A' average in her senior year. Read
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Alexander has gotten his degree from Northeastern University, with a degree in civil engineering and a minor in environmental science. He spent the summer working at a camp in Colorado, supervising other deaf persons, and will be looking for a job in civil engineering this fall. Read
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Alison lison graduated from the University of Michigan in spring of 2007, after doing extremely well in college. She is currently living in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where she works for the Institute of Social Research on various public health projects. Alison has become increasingly interested in public health and may pursue graduate studies in that field. Read more -->>
Susan (real name withheld by request) was born with a profound hearing loss, but aided by a supportive family network, she learned to sign dexterously and has developed fine oral skills; her speech is completely intelligible. Read more -->>