Council Member: Barbara Hathaway - SILC Executive Assistant
Barbara graduated from Montana State School for the Deaf and the Blind in Great Falls, Montana. She also comes from a military family background. Barbara worked at Atlantis Community Center in Colorado Springs as an Assistant Coordinator for the Deaf and was promoted to Coordinator for the Deaf. She then worked for the Federal Government with the Army as a full time Civilian Service at the Financing and Contracting Department at Fort Carson, Colorado for seven (7) years. Barbara also served her three- year term on Pikes Peak Center on Deafness as a Board Member and in the capacity of Secretary for the Board.
Barbara received her Bachelors in Social Work (2000) and a Masters Degree in Social Work (2003) at Gallaudet University in Washington DC. In addition, she took Special Education classes at University of Phoenix and Northern Arizona University from 2003 to 2006 in order to continue to maintain her full time teaching position as a Life Skill Teacher in the high school at Arizona State School for the Deaf and the Blind in Tucson. She then moved to State of Washington to work for Hearing, Speech, and Deafness Center in Tacoma, Washington as an Advocate for the Deaf and the Hard of Hearing. She also volunteered to be co-chair a retreat for the Deaf Youth in Maryland/Virginia/Washington DC area in 1997.
Barbara strongly feels that every individual with disability should have every right and an opportunity to enjoy their independence life. Every individual with disability who have had succeeded in their life should continue to share their experience with others alike to help them to empower themselves and do what they want to do with their own life! We, people with disability, need to be more visible to allow other people with disability/non-disability to be able to look up at their own people as a Role Model. People with Disabilities are the ones who live in it and know what it takes to understand to succeed in life with help and support from everybody.
Barbara graduated from Montana State School for the Deaf and the Blind in Great Falls, Montana. She also comes from a military family background. Barbara worked at Atlantis Community Center in Colorado Springs as an Assistant Coordinator for the Deaf and was promoted to Coordinator for the Deaf. She then worked for the Federal Government with the Army as a full time Civilian Service at the Financing and Contracting Department at Fort Carson, Colorado for seven (7) years. Barbara also served her three- year term on Pikes Peak Center on Deafness as a Board Member and in the capacity of Secretary for the Board.
Barbara received her Bachelors in Social Work (2000) and a Masters Degree in Social Work (2003) at Gallaudet University in Washington DC. In addition, she took Special Education classes at University of Phoenix and Northern Arizona University from 2003 to 2006 in order to continue to maintain her full time teaching position as a Life Skill Teacher in the high school at Arizona State School for the Deaf and the Blind in Tucson. She then moved to State of Washington to work for Hearing, Speech, and Deafness Center in Tacoma, Washington as an Advocate for the Deaf and the Hard of Hearing. She also volunteered to be co-chair a retreat for the Deaf Youth in Maryland/Virginia/Washington DC area in 1997.
Barbara strongly feels that every individual with disability should have every right and an opportunity to enjoy their independence life. Every individual with disability who have had succeeded in their life should continue to share their experience with others alike to help them to empower themselves and do what they want to do with their own life! We, people with disability, need to be more visible to allow other people with disability/non-disability to be able to look up at their own people as a Role Model. People with Disabilities are the ones who live in it and know what it takes to understand to succeed in life with help and support from everybody.
