FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact:
Glenn Lockhart
Corporate Communications
Viable Inc.
Fax: 301.230.2442
http://www.viable.net
Viable Brings on Carla Mathers as Staff Attorney
ROCKVILLE, MD December 10, 2007 Viable Inc. welcomes Carla
Mathers, Esq. to the company as its corporate legal counsel. Viable
develops and provides relay service technologies, and Mathers will
represent Viable on regulatory issues and counsel on in-house
matters.
Mathers comes from 14 years in private practice in College Park, Md.,
where she was a senior associate litigating primarily employment
cases. Among her areas of legal expertise are employment law,
contracts, and Americans with Disabilities Act compliance. She has
represented deaf and hard of hearing clients in lawsuits regarding
access to interpreting and telecommunications services.
Ms. Mathers brings with her a diverse background and a wealth of
connections that make her an indispensable asset to our customers,
said John T.C. Yeh, president and founder of Viable. Her passionate
commitment to communication access makes her a great fit for the
company.
In addition to being a member of the bar in the state and federal
courts of Maryland and the District of Columbia, Mathers is a
nationally certified sign language interpreter and is well-known
among sign language interpreters across the country. She has
presented on interpreting practices in legal settings for more than a
decade and served on a Maryland state committee on interpreter ethics.
She is also the author of the 2006 publication, Sign Language
Interpreters in Court: Understanding Best Practices.
Mathers received her interpreting degree from the College of Southern
Idaho and her law degree from Howard University, where she graduated
magna cum laude. In 2005, she was recognized by the Registry of
Interpreters for the Deaf with the Judie Husted Leadership Award.
I am excited to join Viable, a company that is at the forefront of
providing deaf and hard of hearing persons with communication access
technology. said Mathers. She joins a workforce of approximately 70
deaf, hard of hearing and hearing employees.
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About Viable Inc.
Viable provides next-generation video relay services for deaf and
hard of hearing persons that can be accessed wherever there is
Internet or wireless connectivity, opening them to a world of
communication possibilities. Founded in 2006, Viable is a private,
deaf-owned company, and the majority of its employees are deaf and
hard of hearing and are personally vested in the innovation and
development of the companys products and services. An online press
kit and further information are available at http://www.viable.net.
About Telecommunications Relay Services
Mandated by Title IV of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990,
telecommunications relay services (TRS) enables individuals with
hearing or speech disabilities to achieve functional equivalence by
accessing telephone systems to place or receive calls through an
intermediary known as a relay operator or relay interpreter. Emergent
IP technology has given rise to video-based solutions, which are known
as video relay services (VRS). VRS options include using a webcam or a
videophone to connect to a video relay interpreter, and allow deaf and
hard of hearing callers for whom sign language is native to fully
achieve the ideal of functional equivalence.
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