Our 1st Sponsor for The Pearls

Tate Tullier Photography is our first ever Sponsor for The Pearls!!

Marcella M. Meyer

Advocate, Leader, Warrior, Trailblazer, Mentor – many of the words used to describe Marcella M. Meyer (1925-2009). She was all of these and more. Born in 1925 in Kansas City, Missouri, she became deaf at the age of six from Scarlet Fever. Life in those days was not easy for a deaf [...]

The Black Pearl Award

A special announcement of who is our “The Black Pearl” winner.

The Pearls is an event that recognizes 20 Deaf Women from all over America who have outstanding achievements in their respective categories. The categories are: Advocates, Artists, Business Women, First Ofs/Founders, and Hidden Pearls. This private affair will take place in Studio City, CA on June 4th, 2011. This event is being coordinated by The M Projects. For more information on The Pearls, go to http://themprojects.com/category/the-pearls/.

Leah Katz-Hernandez

Ms. Leah Beth Katz-Hernandez was born in Hartford, Connecticut in 1987. She is of Mexican, Japanese, and Jewish heritage. She attended American School for the Deaf, mainstreamed at a public school, and graduated from Maryland School for the Deaf in 2005. Her first public service experience began with serving on President Robert Davila’s Shared Governance [...]

Jules Dameron

Jules Dameron is a filmmaker with a Master’s degree in Film Production from the University of Southern California. Having founded Deaf Women in Film with the sole purpose for supporting, recognizing and helping all deaf women cultivate their careers, she’s also an avid supporter of all who are frequent users of American Sign Language, especially [...]