Ehrlich, Christine Marie

Born at Kitchener, ON; deaf before age 1 from ototoxic medication. E.C. Drury School for the Deaf, graduating 1983, then graduated Gallaudet University. Travelled internationally before going to work in 1992 for the Royal Bank of Canada, but later changed careers, becoming a professional deaf interpreter and then took a bachelor's degree in education at York University. Taught high school courses at the James Whitney School for the Deaf. Won the 1986-1988 Miss Deaf Canada pageant.