Organizational Affiliates

Organizational affiliates are independent nonprofit, governmental, and corporate organizations in their own right – the following are organizational affiliate members of the NAD, in good standing. Click here to see a listing of state association affiliates [1]. 

Abused Deaf Women's Advocacy Services (ADWAS) [2]
Tiffany Williams, Executive Director

Access Interpreting, Inc. [3]
Brad Leon, Vice-President

Access Interpreting Services, LLC [4]
Golden Dawn Ricketts, Chief Executive Officer

American Association of the Deaf-Blind (AADB) [5]
Jill Gasus, President

American Sign Language Teachers Association (ASLTA) [6]
Glenna Ashton, President

Arizona Deaf Senior Citizens Coalition [7]
Tom Posedly, Chair Board of Directors

ASL Office, Northeastern University [8]
Dawn Bolduc, Contact Person

Burlington County College ASL/Deaf Studies/Interpreter Education [9]
Program Information

California State University Northridge National Center on Deafness [10]
Roslyn Rosen, Director

Center for Disability Rights, Inc., New York [11]
Dean DeRusso, Deaf Systems Advocate

Center on Deafness Inland Empire (CODIE) [12]
Lisa Price, Regional Director

Central Piedmont Community College Interpreter Education [13]
Martha Ingel,  Co-Chair, Interpreter Education Program

Cleary School for the Deaf [14]
Ken Morseon, Superintendent

Communication Service for the Deaf (CSD) [15]
Benjamin Soukup, Chief Executive Officer

Community Outreach Program for the Deaf (COPD) [16]
Anne Levy, Executive Director

Conference of Educational Administrators of Schools and Programs for the Deaf (CEASD) [17]
Joseph Finnegan, Jr., Executive Director

DawnSignPress [18]
Joe Dannis, President

Dayle McIntosh Center for the Disabled, California [19]
Debbie Carrillo, Deaf Services Supervisor

Deaf Adult Services, Inc., of Western New York [20]
Steve Lovi, Executive Director

Deaf and Hard of Hearing Advocacy Resource Center (Nevada) [21]
Executive Director

Deaf and Hard of Hearing Center, Texas [22]
Alma Bebee, Deafness Resource Specialist

Deaf and Hard of Hearing in Government [23]
Steven D. Gagnon, President

Deaf and Hard of Hearing Services, Michigan [24]
Katie Prins, Executive Director

Deaf Community Services of San Diego, Inc. [25]
Leslie K. Elion, Executive Director

Deaf Empowerment Awareness [26]
Eric Gjerdingen, Executive Director

Deaf Independent Living Association, Inc. (MD) [27]
Jennifer Whitecomb, Executive Director

Deaf Seniors of America (DSA) [28]
Jim Potter, President

Deaf Service Center of Southwest Florida [29]
Lori Timson, Executive Director

Deaf Women United (DWU) [30]
Alana Beal, President

Deaf Youth USA (DYUSA) [31]
Leah Katz-Hernandez, Executive Director

Deaf-Blind Contact Center [32]
Susan Sjoholm, Program Director

Deaf-Hearing Communication Centre, Pennsylvania (DHCC) [33]
Iris Boshes, Executive Director

Deafhood Foundation, California [34]
Butch Zien, Chair

Department of ASL and Interpreting Education (NTID) [35]
Kim Brown Kurz, Chairperson

Discovering Deaf Worlds [36]
Harold Mowl, President

D/BA Awakenings for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing (CA) [37]
Hwa Chang, Program Director

Florida School for the Deaf and the Blind [38]
Jeanne Prickett, President

Gallaudet Interpreting Service (GIS) [39]
Yoshiko Chino, Director

Gallaudet University Alumni Association (GUAA) [40]
Samuel Sonnenstrahl, Executive Director

Georgia Council for the Hearing Impaired (GACHI) [41]
Sondra Rhoades Johnson, Executive Director

Graham Staffing Services, Inc. [42]
Ed Sogolow, Chief Executive Officer

Greater Los Angeles Agency on Deafness (GLAD) [43]
Patricia Hughes, Chief Executive Officer

Illinois Deaf and Hard of Hearing Commission (ICDHH) [44]
John Miller, Director

Inclusion Solutions [45]
Patrick Hughes, Executive Director

Indiana School for the Deaf (ISD) [46]
David Geeslin, CEO/Superintendent

Interpreting and Consulting Services [47]
Janessa Price, Executive Director

Jacksonville Community Center for the Deaf (JCCD) [48]
Deloris DeAnn Summers, President

JCIL Deaf and Hard of Hearing Services [49]
Amy Cone, Deaf Services Coordinator

Kentucky Commission on the Deaf and Hard of Hearing (KCDHH) [50]
Virginia Moore, Executive Director

LaGuardia Community College Program for Deaf Adults [51]
Tony Allicino, Director

Language Resource Center, Inc. [52]
Abdullahi M. Sheikh

Lehigh Valley Center for Independent Living [53]
Kadie Trauger, Program Coordinator

Liberty Resources [54]
Harry Barnum, Deaf Outreach/Advocacy Coordinator

Louisiana Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf [55]
Darlene Austin, President

Maine Center on Deafness [56]
Elissa Moran, Executive Director

Maryland Relay [57]
Brenda Kelly-Frey, Director

Massachusetts Commission for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing (MCDHH) [58]
Heidi Reed, Commissioner

Midlands Association of the Deaf [59]
Jacqueline Correa-Alley, President

Mill Neck Manor School for the Deaf [60]
Mark R. Prowatzke, Ph.D.

Mill Neck Services for Deaf Adults [61]

Minnesota Commission Serving Deaf, DeafBlind and Hard of Hearing Minnesotans (MCDHH) [62]
Mary Hartnett, Executive Director

Minnesota Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf (MRID) [63]
Melissa Meyer, Treasurer

Minnesota State Academy for the Deaf (MSAD) [64]
Roxie Mitchell, Director

Missouri Commission for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing (MCDHH) [65]
Ernest Garrett, Executive Director

Montana School for the Deaf and the Blind (MSDB) [66]
Kim Schwabe, Principal

National Asian Deaf Congress (NADC) [67]
Thuan Hanh Nguyen, President

National Black Deaf Advocates (NBDA) [68]
Benro Ogunyipe, President

National Captioning Institute (NCI) [69]
Jay Feinberg, Director Marketing Services

National Consortium of Interpreter Education Centers (NCIEC) [70]
Mary Jane Billings-Grein, Program Assistant

National Council of Hispano Deaf and Hard of Hearng (NCHDHH) [71]
Melissa Draganac-Hawk, President

National Deaf Business Institute (NDBI) [72]
Ronald Sutcliffe, Executive Director

National Interpreter Education Center (NIEC) [73]
Cathy Cogan, Director

National Technical Institute for the Deaf (NTID) [74]
Gerard J.Buckley, NTID President

New Mexico Commission for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Persons (NMCDHH) [75]-Albuquerque
Lori Neubauer, Administrative Assistant

New Mexico Commission for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Persons (NMCDHH) [75]-Las Cruces
Sandra Williams, Las Cruces Coordinator

NorCal Services for Deaf and Hard of Hearing (NorCal) [76]
Shei Farinha, Chief Executive Officer

Northeast Deaf and Hard of Hearing Services [77]
Susan Wolf-Downes, Executive Director

Office of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing (ODHH) [78]
Eric Raff, Director

Orange County Deaf Equal Access Foundation (OCDEAF) [79]
Amy Grindrod, Regional Director

Paisley Group Ltd. [80]
Jeffrey M. Rudolph

Paraquad, Inc. [81]
Kirsten Dunham Director Public Policy/Advocacy

Purple Commnications [82]
Dan Luis, Chief Executive Officer

Rainbow Alliance of the Deaf [83]
Larry Pike, President

Rauch, Inc. [84]
Dave Calvert, Director of Interpreting Services

Regional Center for Independent Living, New York [85]
Dean DeRusso, Deaf Systems Advocate

Regional Resource Center on Deafness (RRCD) [86]
Cheryl Davis, Director

Rhode Island Commission on the Deaf and Hard of Hearing [87]
Steven A. Florio, Executive Director

Rochester School for the Deaf (RSD) [88]
Harold Mowl, Jr., Superintendent

Sacred Circle (IDC) [89]
Teresa Norris, Excutive Director

Sign Language Resources, Inc., New York [90]
Mary Darragh MacLean, President

Signcasts [91]
Brein Mcnamara, Founder

Sorenson Communications [92]
Ronald Burdett, Vice President, Community Relations

Southern California Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf (SCRID) [93]
Beth D'addario, President

Speech Conversion Technologies, Inc. [94]
Gregory Schmidt, Chief Executive Officer

St. Mary's School for the Deaf [95]
Timothy M. Kelly, Superintendent

Support Services for the Deaf (CA) [96]
Edward Kwoh, Case Manager

The Hearing and Speech Agency/CIRS [97]
Marguerite Montgomery, CIRS Director

The Learning Center for the Deaf (TLC) [98]
Judith Vreeland, President/Executive Director

Tri-County GLAD [99]
Julianna Fjeld, Regional Director

Total Source for Hearing Loss and Access (TSHA) [100]
Rene Ryan, Executive Director

Ultratec [101]
Pamela Holmes, Director Consumer and Regulatory Affairs

USA Deaf Sports Federation (USADSF) [102]
D. Cole Zulauf, Home Office Administrator

Vermont Center for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing (VCDHH) [103]
Robert Carter, President

Vermont Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf (VRID) [104]
Cory Brunner, Treasirer

Villafane Translation Services [105]
Carlos Villafane

West Virginia Commission for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing (WVCDHH) [106]
Roy Forman, Deputy Director

Western Pennsylvania School for the Deaf (WPSD) [107]
Donald E. Rhoten, Superintendent

Willie Ross School for the Deaf [108]
Louis Abbate, Executive Director