Our featured speaker this month is Ms. Ann Thomas, an award-winning advocate for people with hearing loss who wears many hats in the hearing loss community. She is president of the Hearing Loss Association of America Diablo Valley Chapter (HLAA DV)  and she serves as the HLAA Brand Ambassador. She sits on the HLAA Get in the Hearing Loop and the UCSF Patient and Family Advocacy committees, to name a few.  Her journey with hearing loss began in her late forties when she discovered she was losing her hearing. Her hearing loss was progressive, and today, she has two very successful cochlear implants.