Northern Virginia Resource Center for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Persons: Improving Communication, Changing Lives
Erik Nordlof, a smiling Caucasian male in his mid-thirties with short, neatly trimmed brown hair and a trimmed beard. He is dressed in a dark suit, a light blue dress shirt, and a red tie.

Erik Nordlof

Erik Nordlof works for IBM Global Business Services as a Managing Consultant in its Data & Technology Transformation practice area. He has lived in Arlington, Virginia since 2009. Born in Chicago, he lost his hearing at two years old due to bacterial meningitis and received a cochlear implant shortly after. He grew up in St. Louis where he attended an oral deaf school and later learned American Sign Language as a teenager. He went to Indiana University and majored in information systems at the business school. In the DC area, in addition to serving on the NVRC board and working for IBM, he is the founder and lead organizer of DC Deaf Moviegoers & Allies, a group that organizes open captioned movie screenings, and organizes and/or advertises about deaf and ASL events in the area. In his free time, he enjoys traveling, movies, reading, and playing intramural sports.