It Takes a Village Conference

In March 2010, Cal-Ed was hosted in beautiful Sacramento California, at the Sheration Grand Hotel. This was an exceptionally exciting year as it is our 50th anniversary!!

Keynote Speakers

Dr. Genie Gertz is currently a Dean of Deaf Studies at Ohlone College. Prior to that, she was a full-time faculty in the Department of Deaf Studies at California State University, Northridge (CSUN) for twelve years. Genie graduated from Gallaudet University in 1992 and obtained a doctorate in Cultural Studies from UCLA in 2003. Born deaf, Genie came to America from St. Petersburg, Russia at the age of eight years old. She did serve the National Association of the Deaf for four-year as the Region IV Board Member. Her main area of research interest focuses on various factors that cause to weaken Deaf individuals' development of Deaf consciousness and identity.

Dr. David Corina received his MA in Linguistics from Gallaudet University in 1984 and a Ph.D. from U.C. San Diego in Psychology and Cognitive Science in 1991. During this time he worked at the Salk Institute for Biological Sciences in the Laboratory of Ursula Bellugi and Ed Klima. He spent 10 years on faculty in the Department of Psychology University of Washington, Seattle before joining the CMB as a professor of Linguistics.

He currently acts as Scientific Co-Director of the National Science Foundation's Science of Learning Center on Visual Language and Visual Learning (VL2) at Gallaudet University and runs the Cognitive Neurolinguistics Laboratory at UC. Davis. His research focuses on the cognitive and neural representation of spoken and signed languages.

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