"A cross-cultural communicator"

Armed with a Fulbright scholarship, Daniel Nead is seeking to understand how trauma affects deaf people worldwide.

Almost getting shot at a shopping mall in Israel helped Daniel Nead experience what it's like living as a deaf person in a hearing world.

A psychology doctoral student at Gallaudet University, Nead spent a year as a Fulbright scholar in Israel in 2007–08. A few weeks after arriving—and still struggling to learn the basics of Hebrew—Nead was stopped by a security guard at a Tel Aviv shopping mall. The guard checked his bag, and Nead assumed he was cleared to go. He heard shouting but kept walking, not understanding that the commotion was all about him. Turning around, he saw the guard rushing toward him, his hand on the holster of his weapon.

"I was telling a deaf person about it, and he said, 'Welcome to my life,'" Nead says.

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