Abigail Block and Kaitlin Stack Whitney
ABIGAIL BLOCK is undergraduate at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf (NTID) majoring in American Sign Language (ASL) Interpreting and minoring in Environmental Studies. She is also the 2024-2025 Aberg Family STS Research Fellow who has spent the past two years researching how climate-related disaster preparedness campaigns by US government agencies are failing to serve people with IDDs equitably. | KAITLIN STACK WHITNEY is an assistant professor in the Science, Technology & Society Department at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT). NTID is one of the colleges within RIT and one of the two publicly funded colleges for Deaf and Hard of Hearing (DHH) people in the US.