Hearing Access AdvocateJanice S. Lintz is a passionate, accomplished hearing loss advocate. She is well known and respected for her ability to assess situations, identify areas for improvement, recommend solutions, and implement programs that help organizations improve customer service and grow profits. Her ability to break down issues and do what is needed to affect change has earned her unprecedented access to business leaders, government officials, political leaders, and respected academians around the world.

Since 2002, Janice has become the global “go-to” person on all matters related to access for people who are deaf or hard of hearing. Equipped with an undergraduate degree in business, a law degree, and a Masters of Public Administration from Harvard Kennedy School, Janice leverages her broad background to articulate compelling business cases for organizations in both the for-profit and not-for-profit worlds to improve hearing access for customers with hearing loss.

A culture lover, Janice felt her heart sink whenever her daughter – diagnosed with hearing loss at 2 ½ – struggled to understand museum guides and actors on stage, even with hearing aids. Not one to wait, Janice plunged into the research and learned that cultural venues could provide better hearing access with relatively standard technology, such as the induction loop, a coil placed around a room that wirelessly transmits amplified sound to a hearing aid.

Janice works with domestic and international organizations to benchmark best practices and helps them leverage the most effective solutions for their situations. Working with multiple organizations, she helped the NYC Transit recommend that induction loops be included in all NYC subway information booths and call boxes as part of President Obama’s $13.5 million Stimulus Package. She also worked with the NYC Taxi and Limousine Commission to implement this same technology in all taxis. New York City is the first United States city to offer this technology in its transit systems.

The Washington, DC resident and mother of two. Congressmember Paul Tonko awarded Janice Congressional Recognition in 2022, 2022 NYS Disability Rights Hall of Fame Inductee. Profiled in the 2022 The Success Factor book, cited in the footnotes in the Proposed FDA OTC Hearing Aid Regulations in the 2021 books,  Tell Her She Can’t Changemaker: Inspiring Stories of Unstoppable Women and Beyond Diversity. Janice is also a 2018 The Points Guy + Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Goalkeepers Partnership Travel Grant Recipient, 2016 Aspen Institute Spotlight Health Scholar and a 2016 United State of Women Summit Nominated Changemaker. New York State Governor David Paterson appointed her to the Interagency Council for Services to the Deaf, Deaf-Blind, and Hard of Hearing twice. Federal Communication Commission (FCC) Chairman Kevin J. Martin appointed her to represent the interests of people with hearing loss for two terms on the FCC’s Consumer Advisory Committee. The New York City Mayor’s Office appointed her to the Taxi of Tomorrow Stakeholder Committee. The US Access Board appointed Janice to both the Rail Committee and the Passenger Vessel Emergency Alarms Advisory Committee.

Janice is a former Advisory Board member of The Burton Blatt Institute at Syracuse University, and The Lower East Side Tenement Museum’s Advisory Committee. She has participated in six Renaissance Weekend retreats for business and finance leaders, government, the media, religion, medicine, science, technology, and the arts.

Janice is also a former Consumer Education/Travel/Food writer. Thrive Global, The Outdoor Journal, Forbes/Lifestyle, Forbes Woman Africa, Yahoo Travel, Huffington Post, Johnny Jet, and Consumer Mojo published her articles. Condé Nast Traveler, Departures, Travel + Leisure, Good Housekeeping, Skift, Southern Living, Fox Business, NPR, MSN.com, Reader’s Digest and The Washington Post quoted her travel recommendations. She has traveled to 155+3 UN countries and 215 Travelers’ Century Club destinations in her quest to visit every country in the world.

All views expressed are my own and do not reflect the position of my employment.