#nodapl

The DeafHope Board voted today to immediately close our Wells Fargo accounts. Thanksgiving and Columbus Day are rooted in the same violence as the implementation of the Dakota Access Pipeline. Keep loving, keep fighting. http://www.yesmagazine.org/people-power/how-to-contact-the-17-banks-funding-the-dakota-access-pipeline-20160929 Nah, You Can’t Support #NoDAPL and Celebrate Thanksgiving...

Sharing news from ASADV

Excited for the beautiful changes happening at our sister organization IGNITE (formerly ASADV). We are deeply grateful for the leadership and widespread contributions Erin Esposito has made in the DVSV field over the years. She has a special place in our hearts as an important part of the DeafHope family, also as a Trailblazer award recipient. Thank you Erin for sharing so much of yourself with us, for all you have given this work, for your dedication to community accountability, child sexual abuse, and your spirited presence with legislators in DC. Can’t wait to see what you get up to...

Thank you to Santa’s Deaf Elves!

We are deeply grateful to the support of Deaf women in the Bay Area who created some lovely holiday baskets for Deaf survivors. [image description: Alyce Slater Reynolds (white woman with short red hair, glasses, wearing a black top and an orange and black scarf) and Amber Hodson (white woman with chin length brown hair, wearing a black top)  are standing together in front of a white wall covered with black and white framed photos.  They are smiling at the camera and holding between them a basket of items wrapped with a holiday...