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Michelle Weaver-Fudge
Workshop Coordinator
A Black Deaf Jamaican, is a 23-year veteran of the Atlanta Area School for the Deaf's high school classroom. She graduated from Jacksonville State University with a bachelor's degree in Deaf Education. "In order to teach successfully, teachers must realize that students need us to be willing to understand them as a whole," she says regarding teaching.