Meet Our Board of Directors

 

 

 

 

Melanie Bacon
Staff: TN Hands & Voices Executive Director / Parent

Melanie lives in Memphis with her husband and two children, Emilee-age 11 and Morgan-age 4 who has bilateral severe hearing loss.  She worked as an Administrative HR Assistant for 10 years prior to discovering Morgan’s hearing loss. Since then she began working as an Audiology Technician for Baptist Women’s Hospital conducting newborn hearing screens and helped establish the Tennessee Chapter of Hands & Voices.  She is the Executive Director of TN Hands & Voices and has a strong desire to connect with and serve other families of deaf and hard of hearing children.

 

 

 

 

 

Cathi Hayes
Pediatric Audiologist / Vanderbilt
Staff: TN Hands & Voices Secretary

Cathi Hayes has worked at the Vanderbilt Bill Wilkerson Center since 2002 as a pediatric audiologist. Since 2005, Cathi has worked as a pediatric cochlear implant audiologist. Cathi received her Doctorate of Audiology degree from Vanderbilt University in 2007 and her Master’s degree in 2002. She lives in Nashville with her husband and their 2 children. Cathi enjoys spending time with her family.

 

Donnie Moore
Parent / Hard of Hearing Adult
Staff: TN Hands & Voices  Board Chairman & IS Manager

Donnie Moore was born at Vanderberg Air Force Base in Lompoc, California. He has been hard of hearing since the age of 3. He graduated in 1990 from Cheatham County High School in Ashland City,TN then attended college for 3 years pursuing his Computer Science Degree. In 1995 he received his Microsoft Certification Professional  (MCP) and in 2010 he graduated from the Tennessee Leadership Institute 2011 Partners in Policy Making. Donnie is the parent of 5 children, four boys and one girl ages 2 through 10. All of his boys are hard of hearing and each has a cochlear implant. Donnie is currently working at his family’s Construction & Home Repair Business in Cheatham County and as IS Manager for TN Hands & Voices.

 

Crista Duncan
Special Schools Audiologist / TSD
TN H&V Webmaster

Crista Froeling Duncan, Au.D., CCC-A, is a Special Schools Audiologist working at Tennessee School for the Deaf in Knoxville since 2000.  She also works with the 0-3 population for infant hearing screenings/follow-up and early intervention. Crista received her B.A. from the University of Iowa, M.A. from Wichita State University and Au.D. from Salus University. Previously, she worked as a graduate supervisor at the University of Memphis school of Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology specializing in pediatrics.

 

Emily Noss
Clinical Assistant Professor / SLP / UT Child Hearing Services

Emily Noss, M.A. CCC-SLP is a Clinical Assistant Professor in Speech-Language Pathology at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, College of Allied Health Sciences in the Department of Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology. Emily practices in the Child Hearing Services (CHS) clinic in Knoxville. She specializes in pediatric aural habilitation for children who use cochlear implants and hearing aids, aural/oral communication assessments, pre- and post-cochlear implant evaluations, parent guidance and education, adult cochlear implant auditory training, and Alternative/augmentative communication.She received her B.A. and M.A. from the University of Tennessee. Emily has been with CHS since 2005.

 

Jenny Williams
Parent / NH Parent Consultant Family Voices
Staff:TN Hands & Voices Treasurer & West Regional Parent Consultant;

Jenny is the Family Voices Newborn Hearing Parent Consultant for West Tennessee and has two children. Her son is 28 years old and has a bilateral hearing loss. She has served on several boards in West Tennessee that provide services for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing.

 

Julie Beeler  CCC-A/SLP, Audiology Consultant
TN NH Screening ProgramTN H&V Webmaster

Julie Beeler is an audiologist and speech-language pathologist who has worked in Knoxville for 16 years. She is currently the Audiology Consultant for Tennessee’s Newborn Hearing Screening Program and also works privately for a rural school system. Previously, Julie worked with the University of Tennessee Audiology & Speech Pathology Department.

 

Katherine Baldwin
Parent
Staff: TN Hands & Voices Membership Coordinator

Katherine and her husband, Robert, live in Memphis and have three children who are hard-of-hearing (Henry-age 13, Richard-age 7 and Sophie-age 4). Robert is also hard-of-hearing. When the family lived in Denver, Colorado, Katherine was a regional parent coordinator for Colorado Families for Hands & Voices. She has a Master of Social Work degree and is a research coordinator in the department of preventive medicine at UT Health Sciences Center in Memphis.

 

Kelly Yeager
Clinical Associate Professor / Audiology / UT

Kelly Yeager, Au.D., CCC-A is a Clinical Associate Professor in Audiology at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, College of Allied Health Sciences in the Department of Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology. Kelly specializes in infant hearing screenings, physiological and behavioral diagnostic evaluations, hearing aid/ FM evaluations/fittings, cochlear implant mapping and family support/education. She received her B.S. and M.S. degrees from the University of South Alabama in Mobile and her Au.D. from the University of Tennessee. She has been employed at the University since 1998.

 

Robert Baldwin  Parent / HH Adult
Ph.D. Psychologist of Deaf & HH

Robert L. Baldwin, Ph.D. is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist. Dr Baldwin is hard-of-hearing and has three children with hearing loss. He holds a Ph.D. from Gallaudet University and currently works at the Memphis VA Medical Center (VAMC). Before beginning work at the VAMC in 2008, Dr. Baldwin provided a variety of counseling and mental health services to individuals who are Deaf or hard-of-hearing (D/HH) and their families at the University of Colorado Hospital (UCH) in Aurora, CO. At the VAMC, Dr. Baldwin provides psychological interventions for Veterans with hearing disorders including tinnitus and the comorbidities of mental health disorders with hearing disorders. He also has a private practice and provides services for individuals who are D/HH who use American Sign Language as their primary mode of communication.

 

Susie McCamy  EI Deaf Educator / UT Center on Deafness
TN Hands & Voices  Board Advisor

Susie McCamy, M.S. Child and Family Studies/B.S Deaf Education is the Newborn Hearing Family Outreach Coordinator at UT Center on Deafness. Her 30 plus years of experience in the field include the following positions •Parent Advisor and Statewide Supervisor of the TIPS program (home based early intervention services for 0-3 children with special needs and their families) •TEIS Advisory Consortium on the State team •ECSE Preschool Teacher and Child Find Evaluator with LTVEC(Little Tennessee Valley Educational Cooperative) Deaf Educator with the Preschool Satellite program out of the North Carolina School for the Deaf.

Susie is a certified Ski*HI trainer and has served on multiple committees and Boards associated with the field of Early Childhood Special Education.

 

Tonya Bowman
NH Parent
Consultant Family Voices
Staff: TN Hands & Voices Database Manager & Middle TN Regional Parent Consultant

Tonya Bowman is a wife and mother of three children. Her daughter Jasmyn, 10, has bilateral sensorineural hearing loss. Jasmyn wears hearing aids and is oral. Tonya has worked for Family Voices of TN since 2007. She is the Middle TN Family Resource Specialist/Newborn Hearing Parent Consultant. She enjoys helping families.

 

Tracy Duncan  Teacher of the Deaf
MNPS / NHS EHDI Task Force

Tracy Duncan obtained her undergraduate degrees in English, Sociology, Religion, and Social Work with emphasis in families and young children (BA / BS 1976). She worked as a Social Worker in OKC with Head Start Rural Grant Program, Child and Family Resource Program (1976 – 1977). Tracy was one of the first students participating in the Parent-Infant Graduate Program at Gallaudet College while attending a graduate program in Deaf Education Program at Western Maryland College (M.Ed. 1978). While attending school in the Washington, D.C. / Maryland area,Tracy worked as a freelance Interpreter for the Deaf and at Galluadet College in the PE Department (1978 – 1980). In 1980, she began working in the Early Intervention Home Based program with the Louisiana School for the Deaf (PPEP). In 1981, Tracy obtained a RID Comprehensive Certification (CSC) as Interpreter for the Deaf. In 1986, Tracy moved to Nashville, TN, in order to work with the early intervention home based program with the TN School for the Deaf (TIPS). She started teaching sign language and interpreting for the Deaf in Nashville in 1986. In 1991, she became a SKI*HI National Trainer. In 1995, Tracy completed a Masters in Preschool Special Education with an emphasis in severe-profound/vision impairments. In 2007, when the TN DOE merged TIPS with TEIS, she started working as a Service Coordinator Hearing Impaired Specialist in Greater Nashville District TEIS Office. In 2010, Tracy became employed by the Metro-Nashville Public Schools as a 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th Teacher of the Deaf at West End Middle School.