Greg Hlibok took over the FCC's Disability Rights Office a year ago. Hlibok has been profoundly deaf since birth. After studying engineering, he later became the first deaf law student at
Hofstra University and at the age of 43 has become the first chief of the office to have a disability. His job is to help put into place a law that requires digital technology creators to make their materials available to the blind and deaf. Hlibok is best known in the
Deaf community as the student body president of
Gallaudet University during the 1988
Deaf President Now protest.
Greg Hlibok took over the FCC's Disability Rights Office two years ago. Hlibok has been profoundly deaf since birth. After studying engineering, he later became the first deaf law student at Hofstra University and at the age of 43 has became the first chief of the office to have a disability. His job is to help put into place a law that requires digital technology creators to make their materials available to the blind and deaf. Hlibok is best known in the Deaf community as the student body president of Gallaudet University during the 1988 Deaf President Now protest.
