Audism Free America (AFA) contacted the NAD board candidates with questions - see this link
http://audismfreeamerica.blogspot.com/2012/06/afas-question-to-nad-pres-vp-and-sect.html
Kirsten Poston's answers are below.
AFA thanks Ms. Poston for her prompt and thorough responses.
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Please share how you envision AFA and NAD working together in the future
My vision of the Audism Free America and NAD working together in the near future are
as follows:
• Maximize the use of Social Media to capture a wide audience (host venue
available for inquiries, ideas, concerns, or complaints)
• Improve Referral service- share information and resources
• Propose expending the network of deaf media bloggers, reporters, and
columnists at Capitol Hill and across America to increase awareness
• Propose that AFA and NAD will partner together with others in our community to
address common issues through an memorandum of understanding MOU
• Set up time for NAD and AFA to collaborate on the mission, respectively
Please give us 3 examples of how you have worked to end Audism in America
• Established interpreter program
• Educated government leaders on how to make deaf-friendly environment
• Implemented strategies to break down communication barriers
• Facilitated employment meditation/lawsuits
• Wrote policies that removed barriers to communications for the deaf
• Member of several organizations (DHHIG, NAD, MDAD, FEDs, NBDA)
• Part of increasing hiring for disabilities for Federal government workforce
Please identify specifically how can you lead in a way that NAD will improve its
image in taking a strong stand in upholding the rights of Deaf citizens to ASL in
the face of mounting oral only forces
• Host Venue through Social Media as part of Board of Director’s decision-making
• VLOG
• Educate empowerment with resources
• Conference topics focused on strategies for overcoming communication barriers
• Youth training for future
• Network with professional colleagues both inside and outside NAD doing the
work to build the bridges in our community
Please explain how the NAD election process can be changed to include direct
voting by its membership
I cannot answer this question because this is something that would have to be
decided by the NAD Delegates. They have to be willing to want to change the
system. Its not a decision that anyone can make individually.
To promote and protect the civil liberties of Deaf people and their linguistic birthrights.
About Me
- AudismFreeAmerica
- Questions/Comments- Email to AudismFreeAmerica@gmail.com Audism Free America (AFA) is a grassroots Deaf activist organization in the US, which advocates for Deaf American rights, cultural resurgence, and seeks primarily to challenge the ideological foundations of audism in America. Audism is attitudes and practices based on the assumption that behaving in the ways of those who speak and hear is desired and best. It produces a system of privilege, thus resulting in stigma, bias, discrimination, and prejudice—in overt or covert ways—against Deaf culture, American Sign Language, and Deaf people of all walks of life. AFA is committed to: 1. human and linguistic rights of Deaf people 2. unmasking audism and media misrepresentation 3. advocating for future generations
