WEBINAR—Mission Possible: The Sky’s the Limit for Disability Workplace Inclusion

Victoria Garcia, an engineer who leads a team of 20 at NASA and is responsible for systems integration for the upcoming manned missions to the Moon; she was diagnosed with profound hearing loss at birth and now wears a cochlear implant (CI).

Sheila Xu, who is deaf, graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and is now working on a combined graduate degree at the Harvard Kennedy School/Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. She learned ASL in college, now wears a cochlear implant (CI) and dreams of starting a business that helps people with hearing loss and other disabilities.

K. Renee Horton, Ph.D. is a graduate of Louisiana State University with a B.S. in electrical engineering and a minor in math in 2002; and a Ph.D. in material science with a concentration in physics, becoming the first African American to graduate from the University of Alabama in 2011 in this area. She works for NASA, at first as a student from 2009 to 2011, and then started her career as a mechanical test engineer in 2012.

Larry Guterman is co-founder of SonicCloud and chief customer experience officer of Sonitum, Inc. (makers of SonicCloud), a technology company dedicated to enhancing and personalizing audio on phone calls, computers, and other electronic media for people with hearing loss.