Michael Krajnak

Born in New York City, Michael Krajnak is a Deaf man who teaches ASL (American Sign Language) at Brown University and works in a deaf unit at a psychiatric hospital. Michael was born as the only deaf member of a hearing family and, despite growing up completely oral, decided to sign at the age of eighteen. He attended the National Technical Institute for the Deaf in Rochester, N.Y., and the Gallaudet in Washington, D.C., and lived briefly in Ohio before moving to Providence, Rhode Island. In addition to teaching ASL at Brown, Michael has been long involved in political activism for Deaf rights.