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THE White House has appointed Jamaican immigrant Claudia Gordon to oversee its efforts on disability issues.
Gordon, a deaf lawyer, moves over from the Department of Labour where she dealt with potential discrimination by federal contractors to now work between the Obama administration and the disability community as the White House's disability liaison. Her new title is associate director in the White House Office of Public Engagement.
The discrimination Gordon experienced as a deaf child in Jamaica compelled her to become a lawyer. Her family moved to the United States when she was a child and she later attended New York's Lexington School for the Deaf where she learned sign language and later became the first deaf student to graduate from the American University's Washington College of Law.
Gordon has worked for the National Association of the Deaf Law and Advocacy Centre as well as the US Department of Homeland Security.
Below are excerpts from an interview posted on the White House's Council on Women and Girls website:
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/mobil...e-job_14744652
Gordon, a deaf lawyer, moves over from the Department of Labour where she dealt with potential discrimination by federal contractors to now work between the Obama administration and the disability community as the White House's disability liaison. Her new title is associate director in the White House Office of Public Engagement.
The discrimination Gordon experienced as a deaf child in Jamaica compelled her to become a lawyer. Her family moved to the United States when she was a child and she later attended New York's Lexington School for the Deaf where she learned sign language and later became the first deaf student to graduate from the American University's Washington College of Law.
Gordon has worked for the National Association of the Deaf Law and Advocacy Centre as well as the US Department of Homeland Security.
Below are excerpts from an interview posted on the White House's Council on Women and Girls website:
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/mobil...e-job_14744652
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