Today we’d like to introduce you to Dana Mallory.
Dana, can you briefly walk us through your story – how you started and how you got to where you are today.
My name is Dana Mallory. I was born in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. I become deaf due to German Rubella disease. My parents took me to a private school for me to learn sign language; then went to public school from preschool – 1st grade in Tennessee. After I moved to Michigan because we have a large family to support and dad worked there from 2nd grade to 8th grade.
After that, I went to Washington, DC for Model Secondary for the Deaf – private school which I graduated. I went to Rochester Institute of Technology to study for major – Electromechanical. My reason to leave college, which I have only one semester left to take care of my family in Houston, Texas. I have started work in Best Buy Company since 1995. I met my future wife, which I married in 1997. My wife and I have two beautiful children – One daughter in 1999 and One son in 2002.
I decided to go back to Capella University to finish College which I graduated from in March 2017 for major – Business Management and Leadership. I am the founder of Southwest Houston Deaf Social, and my vision is to help the deaf community in the Greater Houston area for social between hearing and deaf community. I am so proud of my daughter will be graduating from High School in May 2018.
Overall, has it been relatively smooth? If not, what were some of the struggles along the way?
A few obstacles I am still struggling with is writing English structure and English grammar, but I have used American Sign Language to communicate, within all my life. I would like to thank my wife who is deaf and help me with correcting my grammar. My obstacles were these. How could I set them up to make a flyer, social media, and Video Vlog?
I tried out inviting small numbers, to start with, 20 people during 2016’s Happy New Year. I am still working hard to get charities donations by writing a letter about being a sponsor of the deaf community and help grow for the Deaf. I post the news on Southwest Houston Deaf Social once per month.
Please tell us about Greater Houston Deaf Club.
My business wants to create and make a potential to grow into the deaf community to focus on social media, collaboration, resource to help improve exhibit, change does manage a project to sponsors, vendors, and consults. I had first set of thriving with the goal of structural planning to do volunteer to our organization business.
It is going to be a social context of entrepreneurs’ recourse. I am proud that generally to create the potential group of volunteers to progress suggestion. They are pleased to feel the culture value of volunteers support our community develops. Our goal setting to growth the deaf community makes an entrepreneur.
If you had to go back in time and start over, would you have done anything differently?
My experience is that I am learning to struggle and write to the accuracy structure with PowerPoint and Word Document for my classroom (online) with the aptitude and communique. My benefit is that I am still not giving up on my structure, but I have several conceive critical thinking to learn to competence and communiqué to help.
Contact Info:
- Phone: 832 532 1258
- Email: GHDC2018@gmail.com
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GHDeafClub/
Image Credit:
Charis Mallory
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