Diego Ozuna-Clark (pronouns they, them, theirs) is a proud native of the Rio Grande Valley in South Texas and lived in Austin, Texas for ten years. Currently, they are living in Saint Paul, Minnesota with their partner and two dogs, Rowan and Caribou.

Diego is working as the Community Engagement Coordinator at the National Deaf Center (NDC) and has a passion for community-based projects and programs. They are a foodie, video gamer, sneakerhead, and enjoys the outdoors.

Lauren Hostovsky (she/her) hails from Boston, Massachusetts. She currently lives in Hawaii and she has been working in multiple different roles such as an ASL Instructor, Early Language Specialist and also as a Deaf mentor to hearing families with Deaf and Hard of Hearing children. She is strongly passionate about her work and especially making connections with families and teaching them ASL to better support their communication with their Deaf and H/H children. She is excited to be on board and serve as a language model for ASL at Home for the second edition of the curriculum.

Romduol Ngov (they/them) is Khmer Trans Genderfluid Deaf and a child of refugee parents. They were born in Sacramento and raised in the Bay Area. They work as a Deaf interpreter.

Romduol loves to go on adventures, socialize with friends & family, and spend time with their furbaby, Taylen. They are a hardcore gamer and play games in their free time after work.

Tess Dozier (she/her) as a bachelor’s degree in social work and a master’s degree in teaching ASL from the University of Northern Colorado. She has lived and worked within the deaf community of Puerto Rico in the social work, interpreting, ASL teaching, and DHH teaching fields. In her free time she enjoys reading, going to the beach, and driving through the scenic mountains. She is excited to serve as a language model for a trilingual curriculum that provides ASL instruction for families of deaf children that speak both English and Spanish.