January 19, 2001
Consumer/Disability Telecommunications Advisory Committee
							
Executive Director

Shirley L. Rooker, President, Call For Action (CFA)

Ms. Rooker has been fighting fraud and raising public awareness as an activist and 
consumer educator for CFA since 1976.  She was elected president of CFA in 1989, and 
under her direction CFA has produced several award-winning consumer brochures.  It 
also has provided free, confidential consumer hotline services for those who have no 
other recourse.  CFA has been an accessibility advocate and has made its offices, phone 
lines and website accessible to people with disabilities.  Ms. Rooker has worked closely 
with the White House, the FTC and the FCC on consumer issues.  She has been cited as a 
consumer expert by the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, CNN, 
AP and CNBC.  She serves on the Consumer Literary Consortium and the Alliance 
Against Fraud in Telemarketing, and has a BA in Psychology, with distinction, from 
George Washington University.

Members

1. Rayna Aylward
Executive Director
Mitsubishi Electric America Foundation   

2. Brenda Battat
Acting Executive Director 
Self Help for Hard of Hearing People

3.	Daniel Brenner
Senior Vice President for Law and Regulatory Policy
National Cable Television Association

4. Julie Carroll
Senior Policy Advisor
Information Technology Technical Assistance and Training Center
Georgia Institute of Technology

5.	Robert E. Chrostowski
Senior Vice President  
Iwatsu America, Inc.,
Telecommunication Industry Association 

6.	Michael F. DelCasino
Regulatory Division Manager
AT&T 

7. Nanci Linke-Ellis
Executive Director
TRIPOD Captioned Films

8. Richard T. Ellis
Director  Federal Affairs
Verizon Communications 

9. Maricela Gallegos
Disability Program Manager
Hewlett-Packard Company

10. Joseph C. Gaskins
President
ConnectBid, LLC

11. Larry Goldberg
Director
Media Access Group
WGBH Educational Foundation

12. Susan Grant
Vice President  Public Policy
National Consumers League

13. Judith E. Harkins, Ph.D.
Professor
Gallaudet University

14. Dahlia E. Hayles
Director
Media and Telecommunications Project
Rainbow/PUSH Coalition and Citizen Educational Fund

15 Steve Jacobs
President
IDEAL at NCR, NCR Corporation

16.	Vernon R. James
Executive Director
Health and Human Services
San Carlos Apache Tribe

17.	Matt Kaltenbach
Product Manager, Regulatory Services, 
Technical Standards and Customer Features
Ericsson, Inc.

18.	Jeff Kramer
Legislative Representative for Telecommunications and Utilities
Federal Affairs Department
AARP

19.	Andrew Lange
Special Assistant to the CEO
Communication Service for the Deaf
 
20.	Lila Laux Ph.D.
Lead Engineer
Human Factors Engineering
Qwest Communications International, Inc.

21.	Milton J. Little, Jr.
Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer
National Urban League

22. Paul W. Ludwick
TRS Product Manager
Sprint Corporation

23. Ken McEldowney
Executive Director
Consumer Action

24. Belinda Nelson
General Manager
Gila River Telecommunications, Inc.

25. Shelley Nixon
College Student
Cabrini College

26.	Kathleen F. O'Reilly
Attorney at Law

27.  	Susan Palmer
Manager, Industry Affairs
Cingular Wireless, LLC

28. David Poehlman
Technology Consultant
American Council of the Blind

29. Dr. Refugio I. Rochin
Director
Smithsonian Center for Latino Initiatives
Smithsonian Institution 

30. Laura Ruby
Regulatory Program Manager
Microsoft Corporation

31. Paul Schroeder
President
Alliance for Public Technology

32.	Bob Segalman, Ph.D.
California Department of Rehabilitation 

33.	Pam Stewart
TRS Contract Administrator
State of Maryland  

34.	Jim Tobias
President
Inclusive Technologies

35.	Micaela Tucker
Team Leader, Accessibility Project
Nokia, Inc. 

36.	Judith Viera
Consumer Action Network

37. Karen Walls
Senior Staff Associate
Telecommunications Research & Action Center 

38. Andrea Williams
Assistant General Counsel
Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association
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