Melissa Tumblin, Ear Community Executive Director – recipient of the HLAA’s Advocacy Impact Award (2026)
On June 10th, Ear Community’s Founder and Executive Director, Melissa Tumblin, was awarded the Advocacy Impact Award at the Hearing Loss Association of America Convention in Louisville, Kentucky!
Thank you so much to Neil Snyder, Director of Public Policy, HLAA, and to the HLAA, for nominating Melissa! The Advocacy Impact Award is very special to Melissa and Ear Community because of our organization’s work on advocating for Ally’s Act to pass and also because of the children and adults our organization serves, everyday, who have hearing loss due to Microtia and Aural Atresia!
Melissa shared that this trip to Louisville was very special for her as she got to travel with Terri Shirley, who is not only a dear friend of hers, but a fierce advocate and past recipient of this award! Melissa was also honored to have been given the Advocacy Impact Award by Cheri Perazzoli, another fierce advocate in the state of Washington, for the hearing loss community!
Melissa is grateful to the HLAA for recognizing her efforts advocating for those with hearing loss and is honored to be a recipient of the Advocacy Impact Award this year!
Thank you!
Ear Community
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- Melissa Tumblin, Ear Community Executive Director – recipient of the HLAA’s Advocacy Impact Award (2026)
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- Barbara Kelley, Executive Director of the HLAA, Melissa Tumblin of Ear Community and Neil Snyder, Director of Public Policy for the HLAA
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- Advocate and President of the Washington Chapter for the HLAA, Cheri Perazzoli with Melissa Tumblin.
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- Melissa Tumblin (Ear Community) with Barbara Kelley, Executive Director of the HLAA
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