Keynote Speaker

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Kathleen L. Brockway

Kathleen L Brockman

Kathleen L. Brockway is a Deaf historian, researcher, and educator based in Washington, D.C., and currently a doctoral student at Lamar University in Texas. She is the author of Baltimore’s Deaf Heritage (2014) and Detroit’s Deaf Heritage (2016), with two more books underway—one on an extinct Deaf village in Edinburg, Virginia, and another co-authored work on the first Deaf school in the United States.

She holds a Master’s Degree in Cultural Sustainability from Goucher College and a graduate certificate in Deaf Cultural Studies from Gallaudet University. Her team recently launched the Heritage ASL nonprofit and is actively advancing Deaf history research through its initiatives.