[Missouri-l] Fw: [leadership] Very Positive Move at FCC

[Chip Hailey]

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From: Eric Bridges 
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Sent: Friday, March 12, 2010 4:36 PM
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 As many of you are aware, ACB is a founding member of the Coalition of Organizations for Accessible Technology (COAT).  As aCB's designated representative to COAT I have had the great pleasure to work closely with Karen Peltz Strauss for the better part of the past three years. While her background in accessibility to telecommunications has been from the deaf and hard of hearing community, she has proven to be a staunch ally of the blind and visually impaired community. Today, The FCC announced that she will be taking on the position of Deputy Bureau Chief with in its Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau. In this roll she will be tasked with overseeing the accessibility provisions that will be included in the eminent release of the FCC's broadband plan to Congress. The Commission has not had a vocal advocate for individuals with disabilities for many years and in Karen we will be very  well served. The release announcing her position is below. 

I look forward to working with Karen in her new position. 

 

Eric 

 

 

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:  March 12, 2010

 

NEWS MEDIA CONTACT: David Fiske 202-418-0513, email david.fiske at fcc.gov 

 

FCC CHAIRMAN GENACHOWSKI NAMES KAREN PELTZ STRAUSS

 

AS DEPUTY CHIEF IN CONSUMER BUREAU 

 

Today, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski announced Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau Deputy Chief Karen Peltz Strauss. 

Ms. Strauss will focus on disability issues, among other things, and will help the Commission to implement the components of the National Broadband Plan

that address access for people with disabilities, including leading the effort to develop a proposed Accessibility and Innovation Forum. 

 

            "The FCC has a vital role to play in empowering and protecting all consumers and ensuring they have access to world-class communications networks

and technologies" said Chairman Genachowski. "I look forward to drawing on Karen's extensive experience with telecommunications access issues to realize

those goals."   

 

Strauss has over 25 years experience working on telecommunications access for people with disabilities.  She is a co-founder of the Coalition of Organizations

for Accessible Technology, or COAT, a coalition of over 290 national and regional organizations dedicated to ensuring disability access to emerging Internet-based

and digital communications technologies in the 21st century.  Ms. Strauss most recently provided consulting services to non-profit consumer groups, educational

research institutes, and relay service providers.  

 

 Previously, she served as legal counsel for Gallaudet University's National Center for Law and Deafness, and the National Association of the Deaf.  Prior

to that, she served as Deputy Bureau Chief of the former Consumer Information Bureau at the FCC.  In that capacity, she helped initiate its first Disability

Rights Office and managed the Commission's consumer and disability access programs and policies.  Ms. Strauss holds a JD from the University of Pennsylvania

Law School and an LLM from the Georgetown University Law Center.  

 

- FCC -            

 

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http://www.coataccess.org/node/6717

 

http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-296832A1.pdf 

 

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