Announcement of the winner of the 2020 Albert B. Chen Scholarship, a $5,000 award for high school seniors with hearing loss. The winner will give a short talk about how to give back to the hearing-loss community in the future.
Our featured speaker will be Rebecca Alexander, author of "Not Fade Away: A Memoir of Senses Lost and Found." Despite being deaf and nearly blind as a result of a rare variant of Usher Syndrome, Rebecca is an award-winning author, psychotherapist, group fitness instructor, disability advocate, and extreme athlete. She will talk about resilience in the face of adversity.