Ramos, Angel

Born in New York City. Deafened at age 9; B.S. from Manhattan College; M.S. from State University of New York at Geneseo; another M.A. from California State University, Northridge; Ph.D. from Gallaudet University. Director of the Gallaudet University Regional Center, Eastfield College, 1991-1993; co-founder of the National Hispanic Council of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing. In 1993, was the first deaf recipient of a Fulbright fellowship, and in 2001 was appointed superintendent of the Idaho School for the Deaf and the Blind.