Engaging Young People to Talk about Hearing Loss

Brittany Nievinski will discuss her personal journey as a designer and how she overcame the challenges of hearing loss to succeed in college and graduate school. She will also speak about social design and what it means to develop a practice grounded in lived experience and personal values. In her work as a Graphic Designer, she focuses on openness, holding space for conversation, and exploring what hearing health means to her. She hopes to engage with other young people around the topic of hearing health.

We will also award the third annual $5000 Albert B. Chen scholarship for a high school senior with hearing loss to Lawrence Goldfeld of Staten Island Technical High School who will be attending the Macaulay Honors College at the College of Staten Island.