Halle Nelson

As a Deaf Studies minor at West Chester University, I’ve fallen in love with American Sign Language. It’s emotive, fluid, and elegant in a way that simply can’t be attained through verbal communication. This is why it frustrates me that the Deaf are often perceived by the Hearing world as being somehow lesser. They have a different perspective, culture, and identity than an average Hearing person like myself. I write about DeafCAN! both because I truly respect the wonderful work they do and because I feel strongly about the need to try to bridge the two worlds together. Thankfully, DeafCAN! recognizes that as well.

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It wasn’t that I saw something pretty. It’s that, in the wake of such splendor, I felt humbled. My surroundings have reinforced that I am in the midst of something greater than myself. That the world is so much bigger than I typically give it credit for, and in the grand scheme of things I am only a small part. The privilege is that I get to witness it firsthand.

Working as the Communications Manager at one of Wellington’s Motion Design Companies Fox & Co. was an especially advantageous internship for me. I would organize the company’s social media calendar across several different social networking platforms, created templates for future reference, scoped out marketing opportunities domestically and internationally, wrote posts for the company’s blog, wrote and edited text for the company’s SOWs, sat in on storyboarding and conceptualizing meetings for advertising projects, and much much more!