Board of Directors

Andrew Lund

Profoundly Deaf from an early age, language deprivation effected my thoughts that caused me to explore crazy things to try (a wilderness). At a Manitoba School for the Deaf, my true language: ASL, caused my language deprivation to disappear opening many new adventures: mime, sports, arts, politics, and others.

I am working at the University of Manitoba as an IT System Administrator and as a board representative for the union, AESES (Association of Employee Supporting Education Services). The experiences taught me how to build our rights as Deaf and Hard of Hearing people.

These journeys built my true language, culture and arts as my visual language. All Deaf desire to preserve their culture, arts and language which display a powerful visual language that we are proud of.

“This wilderness adventure inspires me AND you involving the Deaf and Hard of hearing community to grow our true language, culture and arts. Out there, they are always eager to learn about us, we are here to give them the best service and understanding to build a bridge between us and them.”

Alice Crawford

Partially deafened at an early age, I spent two years at the school for the Deaf in Belleville before my family moved to Winnipeg. I still retained some words and the alphabet in spite of suppression of ASL by my parents. I have just enough ASL to get by and regret I was not allowed to maintain the language I learned in Belleville.

I am a printmaker and collage artist with a deep interest in accessibility to education for Deaf artists. My passion on this board is to enlighten government and policy makers about Deaf Culture. I hope to help make grants Deaf-friendly so Deaf artists grow in their arts practice and perhaps become future teachers for new generations of Deaf artists. MCSD has made this happen with 100 Decibels, a Deaf Mime Troupe and for Deaf photographers. In the future, we will do the same for other arts disciplines so Deaf artists can reach their full potential.

Trica Amaro

Born into a hearing family of English, Italian and Canadian decent, Tricia Amaro is an ASL Instructor with an Educational Assistant degree from the Faculty of Education at the University of Winnipeg. She is currently working on her Bachelor of Arts degree from the same university.

She serves on the Board of ECCOE as Secretary, on the boards of MDSA (Manitoba Deaf Sports Association) and MDA. (Manitoba Deaf Association) being involved with events of those two organizations. She continues to play in Deaf sports and enjoys spending time with her daughter and friends.

She strongly advocates for the Deaf and hard of hearing rights and accessibility.