New director named for National Catholic Office for the Deaf

Published: 2006-11-27

LANDOVER HILLS, Md. (CNS) -- Consuelo Martinez Wild, who has 25 years of experience in services and ministries to those who are deaf, began her appointment in October as executive director of the National Catholic Office for the Deaf in the Washington suburb of Landover Hills. From 1995 until just recently, she was director of the Department of Deaf Ministry for the Diocese of Orange, Calif. Wild was born with a progressive hearing loss and became deaf as an adult. Prior to her work in the Orange Diocese, she worked in various outreach programs for the deaf. She also worked in the clinical and research area of deaf services and established parent support groups, family camps and summer work programs. During that time she was also on the advisory board and a catechist for the Catholic Deaf Center in Orange County.

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