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Diana D. Bender, Ph. D.
Diana Bender is a graduate of Bucknell University in Lewisburg, PA.
She received her master's and doctorate degrees in organic chemistry at the University of Munich, in Munich, Germany.
In her professional career she worked as a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Delaware, followed by 21 years as a research chemist and product manager at a Philadelphia area specialty chemicals company.
She was first diagnosed with a progressive hearing loss at the age of 10 and received a cochlear implant in 2004.
She has been a member of HLAA since 1995.
She served as the chapter president of the Montgomery County, PA chapter from1997 until 2001 and has been the editor of that chapter's newsletter since 1997.
She has been a member of the HLA-PA Advisory Council since the state office originated in 2001 and has served as the state director of HLA-PA since 2004.
From 2004 - 2006 she represented HLAA on the Courthouse Access Advisory Committee, a committee convened by the U.S. Access Board.
She has served on several state advisory committees in Pennsylvania and is a graduate of the Gallaudet University Peer Mentoring Program.
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