The DeafDC.com family continues to grow with the addition of Teresa Blankmeyer Burke. She wrote two recent guest blogs for us: The Queen of Supertitles and Cell Phone Etiquette for Hard of Hearing People. A semi-transplanted westerner, Teresa comes to Washington DC by way of Albuquerque, New Mexico, where downtown traffic jams do not exist and green chile is served at every restaurant. As a hard of hearing child, Teresa spent a lot of time asking questions and watching what everyone else was doing so that she could infer what she was supposed to do. Somehow this led to her current gig as a philosopher, a profession where people are actually paid to ask questions and ruminate endlessly on answers.

Teresa Blankmeyer Burke

She is presently writing a dissertation on bioethics and the deaf community that focuses on the ethics of genetic technology. When she is not writing (or even when she is) Teresa can be found hiking along the Anacostia River wetlands or the Rio Grande bosque trail, depending on what day of the week it is.

Please give Teresa a warm DeafDC.com welcome!

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