Dr. Nena Raschelle Neild is currently the Accreditation Coordinator at Gallaudet University. She obtained her PhD from Her interests are teaching deaf learners with additional disabilities and teacher attrition and retention in special education. She graduated from the University of Kansas with a doctoral degree in Special Education Patrick Graham is currently an Associate Professor and Department Chair of the Master of Science in Secondary Education for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing at the Rochester Institute of Technology’s National Technical Institute for the Deaf. His focus is on STEM education, early childhood instructional strategies for deaf children with multiple disabilities, and educational equity. A long-time advocate of equity and excellence in Deaf education, Patrick worked with Dr. Joseph Tobin at the University of Georgia and his colleagues on a Spencer funded research project, studying deaf preschools in Japan, France, and the United States. Patrick also formerly taught Kindergarten at Phoenix Day School for the Deaf. In his free time, Patrick enjoys traveling, reading, and interacting with his three sons; two who are deaf and one is a CODA.