Northern Virginia Resource Center for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Persons: Improving Communication, Changing Lives
Kristie Ketchum an older white woman smiling at the camera wearing glasses and a multicolored blue scoop neck shirt.

Kristie Ketchum

Board member since 2017

A lot has changed in education for Deaf and hard of hearing students in the 35 years Kristie Ketchum has been teaching. She’s from North Carolina, where she got her BA in Deaf Education from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She moved to the DMV to attend Gallaudet (then College), and she worked as an au pair for a family with a Deaf toddler in Brussels, Belgium, when she completed her degree. When she returned to the US, she worked for the Department of Hearing and Speech at Children’s National Medical Center (then Children’s Hospital) for 15 years, and she went back to Gallaudet to get her Ph.D. in Educational Leadership. When her 2 daughters reached school age, she started working for Fairfax County Public Schools, where she has been teaching Deaf and hard of hearing students for the past 20 years or so. Her daughters are in the family business. One of them is a middle school teacher for Prince William County Public Schools, and the other recently graduated from Gallaudet with her MA in Speech Language Pathology. She is thoroughly enjoying being a member of the Board, which she joined in January 2017.