Jessica became deaf at the age of 18 months, graduated from high-school second in her class, and was selected Miss Deaf Black America in 1997. She is now attending N.T.I.D. at the Rochester Institute of Technology.




by Joseph Tuitt
Yonkers, New York USA
submitted November 2000
@The Collected Visions exhibition at ICP


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