{"id":1396,"date":"2022-03-07T19:18:46","date_gmt":"2022-03-08T03:18:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/philanthropy.abilitycentral.org\/?post_type=board&#038;p=1396"},"modified":"2023-03-07T12:23:35","modified_gmt":"2023-03-07T20:23:35","slug":"linda-drattell","status":"publish","type":"board","link":"https:\/\/philanthropy.abilitycentral.org\/board\/linda-drattell\/","title":{"rendered":"Linda Drattell, Director"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"276\" src=\"https:\/\/philanthropy.abilitycentral.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Dratell-300x276.jpg\" alt=\"headshot of Linda Drattell\" class=\"wp-image-1397\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Linda Drattell became deafened in her thirties and had to relearn to navigate social, professional, and family relationships; she has chronicled this process in her nonfiction, fiction, and poetry writings, which have been published in anthologies, newsletters and magazines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She has held the positions of director of community relations for the Deaf Counseling, Advocacy and Referral Agency; past president of the Association of Late-Deafened Adults; president and founder of the Bay Epicenter of Advocacy for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing; and past member of the BART Accessibility Task Force. She is a member of the California Writers Club and the Society of Children\u2019s Book Writers and Illustrators. She holds an MBA from the American University and a bachelor\u2019s degree in social work from the Hebrew University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She celebrates life as a wife and mother. She enjoys long-distance running and the company of her aging horse and three goats, who remind her age is just a number and one\u2019s capability is an ongoing discovery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Twitter:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LindaDrattell\">@lindadrattell<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1397,"menu_order":7,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false},"acf":[],"taxonomy_info":[],"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/philanthropy.abilitycentral.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Dratell-1024x943.jpg",1024,943,true],"author_info":[],"comment_info":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/philanthropy.abilitycentral.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/board\/1396"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/philanthropy.abilitycentral.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/board"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/philanthropy.abilitycentral.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/board"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philanthropy.abilitycentral.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/philanthropy.abilitycentral.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}