Sheree Devereaux (s-queen) is a film and stage producer, manager, and former actress. She holds a degree in journalism, and has worked as a contributing reporter in radio& TV news and magazines.

Finding her calling, in 2001, she started a Deafministry, 'The Silentword Commmunity' and has since become a strong advocate and mentor within the LA Deaf community,inspiring and empowering the Deaf in entertainment endeavors. Enlisting the help of her celebrity bachelor friends, she raised $20,000 auctioning off dates, to support her ministry. She also teamed her hearing actress friends with Deaf actresses, to act in a stage production that was nominated for 5 NAACP awards and won for Best Ensemble cast.

Sheree served as Associate Producer & Narrator on Jade's documentary, 911/The Forgotten Underdogs and represented model, Floyd McClain in MICA last year.

Her management company, DEAFinit Models, currently represents model Karina Melendez and was also instrumental in the signing of basketball player, Osei Morris to semi-proteam, "The LA Stars."

Her widely attended Deaf awareness events have celebrated the accomplishments of actress, Michelle Banks, WNBA player Tamika Catchings, and novelist Connie Brisco. Sheree has voiced for drama students of the Marlton School for the Deaf, has been a speaker for both NAOBI and Hear Zero Deaf advocacy panels.

She can be contacted on her www.myspace.com/deafinitmodels. or thesilentword@aol.com.

Born and raised on the beautiful island of Jamaica, W.I., Claudia L. Gordon is the first known Black deaf female attorney in the U.S. It was her desire to address societal barriers faced by people with disabilities that motivated her to pursue a legal career. Currently, she is Senior Policy Advisor with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Office for Civil Rights and Civil Rights and Civil Liberties. Claudia provides legal and policy advice to the senior leadership of DHS on the application of federal laws relating to the rights of people with disabilities to the DHS policies.

She is the recipient of numerous awards and honors for her work-- most recently, she was honored by DHS Secretary Michael Chertoff with the Secretary's Gold Medal Award for her exceptionally outstanding leadership in attending to the needs of sizable population of people with disabilities in the Gulf Coast Regions impacted by the Hurricane Katrina. She previously works as an attorney advisor with the National Association of the Deaf Law Center and as a consulting attorney with the National Council on Disability (NCD).