SXSW 2012

Chief Operating Officer
National Association of the Deaf
Shane H. Feldman is the Chief Operating Officer of the National Association of the Deaf (NAD) where he directs all aspects of its operations. He was co-Chair of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Video Programming Emergency Accessibility Advisory Committee Working Group 1 which submitted recommendations to the FCC for IP Protocol captioning regulations in response to the 21st Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act. In addition, Shane serves as Secretary/Treasurer of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing Consumer Action Network (DHHCAN) where he helped lead the development of the Consumer Group Telecommunications Relay Service Policy Statement. He received his Master’s degree in Management from the University of Maryland University College and Bachelor’s degree in Professional and Technical Communications from the Rochester Institute of Technology.