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Speakers & Concert PerformersPerformersRita MacNeil
After a number of unsuccessful attempts to find work in the music business, Rita MacNeil found inspiration in the women's movement in 1971. Suddenly, people paid attention to her work. There were press interviews, radio appearances and calls for concert appearances.
Jennifer Roland
Shaft Bottom Boys
The Shaft Bottom Boys have seen a spectacular rise from the depths. They are decidedly an "underground" group with a hugely polished stage show and insist on wearing their personal protective gear when they perform. Over the past 3 years, the Shaft Bottom Boy insurgence has been incredible around the Sudbury area as they continue our crusade to promote good safe fun at various community events.
Sudbury Firefighter's Choir
The choir performs about 40 times a year and all of the funds raised are donated to charity. The choir has per-formed at a variety of venues, including the Fire College, at fire chief's conferences, and for the Governor-General.
SpeakersJohan Hammarstrom
Johan has been a frequent visitor of the flight schools and he is today a licensed piolot for most airplanes and has about 1200 hours of flying logged. Johan also has a Masters degree in system analysis from Linkoping Univeristy and is presently working as an Area Operations manager within Secta which is a Swedish-basee medical technology company. Johan is also the founder of several associations related to aviation. When he started his studies in 1999, he founded the university flying society that grew rapidly to more than 4500 members comprising activities related to everything from fixed-wing airplanes to parachuting and soaring.Richard Pimental
Richard is not only technically proficient, he is also an exceptional communicator whose audiences praise his ability to combine information, humor, metaphor, analogy and storytelling into an informative whole that does not just present the information, but really communicates it in a memorable fashion.
Dr. Ruth Warick
She is the current chair of the Diversity Initiative of her professional association, the Association of Higher Education and Disability. She is a former Chair of the National Women’s Reference Group on Labour Market Issues and the B.C. Family Hearing Resource Centre. She is the author of Hearing the Learning, A Postsecondary Handbook for Students who are Hard of Hearing, Hard of Hearing Youth Speak Out, and a Ph.D. thesis on Voices Unheard: The Academic and Social University Experiences of Students Who are Hard of Hearing.
Marshall Chasin
Chasin has been involved with hearing and hearing aid assessment since 1981, having graduated with an M.Sc. from the University of British Columbia, and is the author of over 100 clinically based articles. In 2003, he obtained his AuD from the Arizona School of Health Sciences. Marshall has lectured extensively on implantable hearing aids, hearing aids, music and noise exposure, and is frequently on TV and radio (he's the good looking balding guy sometimes on Much Music). Sam Trychin
He is a member of the American Psychological Association, and is a licensed psychologist in Pennsylvania. He is currently the Mental Health and Rehabilitation Advisor to HLAA. Andre Marcoux
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Rita grew up in Big Pond, Cape Breton with three brothers and four sisters. Often chaotic, her youth included the physical and psychological trauma of surgery for a cleft palate, a first love affair that left her with a child and a broken heart, a marriage breakdown and numerous frustrating attempts to kick-start a musical career.
Born in the tiny fishing community of Alder Point, Cape Breton, Jennifer is the youngest of ten children. Like many children born on Cape Breton Island, music surrounded her from the moment she was born. Her father played fiddle, and the family always enjoyed the kitchen parties and ceilidhs. In 1997, at barely 18 years of age, with the release of her debut album, "Dedication", Jen began her journey into a full time career travelling the world. This young lady is something to see. Despite being born with a hearing loss, Jennifer began taking dance lessons as well as several years of classical piano. At nine she began studying the fiddle with Kyle MacNeil of the world renowned Bara MacNeils and the rest is history. Jennifer is and exceptional performer/musician/song-writer and step–dancer whom you will never forget.
From deep within the mine shaft, the "Shaft Bottom Boys" offer a truly local, unique Sudbury cultural experience.
Launched in January 2002, they started with 12 men. Today, they have 25 male and female singers, all of whom are firefighters in the Greater Sudbury Area.
Johan Hammarstrom is 28 years old and has a congenital hearing impairment that was recognized when he was four years old. Since pre school years, aviation has been Johan’s major interest. His father, also an experienced pilot with his own airplane, gave Johan unforgettable memories of flying adventures in Scandinavia.
Richard Pimentel is one of the leading experts in the nation on Developing Jobs for Persons with Disabilities, Attitude Change, Overcoming Barriers, Crises and Change in the Workplace, Disability and Diversity issues in the workplace, Disability Management, Disabled Veterans Employment Opportunities, Job Placement, Job Retention, and the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Dr. Ruth Warick is Senior Advisor with Access and Diversity at the University of British Columbia and General Secretary of the International Federation of Hard of Hearing People. She represents IFHOH on the International Disability Alliance, which advocates for the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. She is a former president of the Canadian Hard of Hearing Association and continues to be active in CHHA, as chair of its Nominations Committee. 
Marshall Chasin, AuD.,M.Sc., Reg. CASLPO, Aud(C) is an Audiologist and the Director of Auditory Research at the Musicians' Clinics of Canada in Toronto, the Coordinator of Research at the Canadian Hearing Society, and the Director of Research at ListenUp Canada. He received his bachelors in Mathematics and Linguistics at the University of Toronto. He is an Associate Professor in the School of Communication Sciences & Disorders, Faculty of Health Sciences (Audiology) at the University of Western Ontario, and Adjunct Professor at the University of Toronto (in Linguistics) specializing in Acoustic Phonetics.
Dr. Trychin is currently a full-time faculty member in the Department of Psychology at Penn-State, The Behrend College in Erie, PA. Dr. Trychin also provides psychological consulting services to Stairways Behavioral Health in Erie, PA. Dr. Trychin received his Ph.D. in Psychology from the George Washington University, Washington, DC. 
An acclaimed hearing specialist and advocate, Dr. Andre Marcoux, Ph.D, is Advisor on Science, Health and Industry for Canada’s largest group of hearing-impaired consumers. Recognized for his practical research, Dr. Marcoux is a professor of audiology at the Department of Audiology and Speech Language Pathology at the University of Ottawa and former president of several groups, including the Canadian Academy of Audiology. He has also devoted his time to developing hearing care programs in Sub-Saharan Africa. His efforts have permitted vulnerable, hard-of-hearing children, who would otherwise lead a life of isolation, to hear and fully integrate into the hearing world.