A social enterprise helping deaf people into education and work through high-quality communication support, training and consultancy. I was born deaf and I’m a lipreader with two cochlear implants. I believe a good education is a key to being successful in business. I attended four universities to read business, Japanese, law, and careers consultancy – I only had communication support with my last degree so I understand the huge benefits of appropriate support.

I worked as an accountant for ten years and recently was the finance manager for Hearing Concern. I trained as a mentor to help deaf people to work, a lipreading teacher, a deaf awareness trainer, and a psychometric examiner. I was helping deaf people around me to access education and work and was often frustrated at the quality and limited range of communication support available to deaf people requiring captions, and so 121 Captions was born.

I am passionate about helping other deaf people to have equal access to work, education, and events through high-quality communication support with an expert one-to-one service led by deaf people.