2003-2011 WFD Board Member
2005-Present Chair, WFD Organization Review Group.
2007-Present World’s Congress Working Group member
Present- Chair Bioethics Work Group
2010- WFD Fundraising and Organisation Strategy Working Group
2011 Costa Rica, WFD Board Meeting
2010 Oslo, Norway. WFD Fundraising and Organisation Strategy Working Group
2010 Istanbul, Turkey, WFD Board Meeting
2010 Seoul, South Korea, WFD Board Meeting
2009 New Zealand, WFD Board Meeting
2008 Santiago, Chile WFD Board Meeting
2008 Ede, Holland. WFD Board Meeting
2007 Castberggård, Denmark, WFD Board Meeting
2006- Moscow, Russia, WFD Board Meeting
2006- Prishtina, Kosovo, WFD Board Meeting
2005-Present- Chair, WFD Organization Review Group
2005- Helsinki, Finland, WFD Board Meeting
2005- Buenos Aires, Argentina, WFD Board Meeting
2005-Present- Chair WFD Board Organizational Review Group
2004- Helsinki, Finland, WFD Board Meeting
2003- Montéal, Canada WFDYS Youth Camp
2000- Malaysia First Asia Pacific Deaf Youth Camp
1999- Brisbane, Australia WFDYS Youth Camp
1999- WFD Congress, International President, Commission on Deaf Culture and the Arts
1999-2003- President, WFDYS
1998-2003- WFD News Columnist
1995- Zell Am See, Austria WFDYS Youth Camp
1995-1999- Youth Expert
1995-1999- Vice President, WFDYS
International Presentations:
Photo of presentation at the Seminar on the Convention on the Rights for Persons with Disabilities in Korea
Present- Chair Bioethics Work Group
2007- present- WFD Board Member
2011- January- The CRPD and Sign Language Rights: Imagining the Future, Seminar on Deaf Peoples Human Rights, San Jose, Costa Rica.
Photo with Carlos Gutierrez, Vice President of the Costa Rica Deaf Association
2010- September- Towards Barrier-Free Education for Deaf Children: Language Rights Presented at Human Right Seminar co-hosted by Korea Association of the Deaf
2009- November- Deaf Studies in the 21st Century and Understanding Deaf Lives, Workshops given to five successive groups of Frontrunners, an international leadership training program for Deaf youth at the Castberggård folkehøyskole in Denmark. 
Photo with the Vice President of the Korean Assocation of the Deaf and Deborah Iyute WFD Board member from Uganda
2009- March- Deaf People and Human Rights: Historical Perspectives, Keynote presenter at Human Rights conference attended by representatives from Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean, as well as member of the Deaf community and national legislators in the Dominican Republic. Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
2009- August- Transnational interconnections among Deaf People, 1873-1924. Keynote presenter. Deaf History International Conference, Stockholm, Sweden.
Photo with Merv Garetson, Yerker Andersson, and Roz Rosen, WFD Honarary Members and WFD Board Members from the United States since 1956.
2008- October- Deaf People and Human Rights: Historical Perspectives, presented at the III Seminario Enfoque de Cultura, Educacion y Derechos de Personas Sordas in Santiago, Chile.
2008- April- Deaf Studies in the 21st Century and Understanding Deaf Lives, Workshops given to five successive groups of Frontrunners, an international leadership training program for Deaf youth at the Castberggård folkehøyskole in Denmark.
Meeting with representatives from Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean Regional Secretariat 2011
2007- November- Deaf Studies in the 21st Century and Understanding Deaf Lives, Workshops given to five successive groups of Frontrunners, an international leadership training program for Deaf youth at the Castberggård folkehøyskole in Denmark.
2007- August- Genetics and Understanding Deaf Lives, Second Baltic Deaf Youth Exchange, Lithuania.
2007- July- Madrid, Spain, WFD Congress
2007- January- Co-equality, presented at Teater Manu, Geilo, Norway
Joe with WFDYS and WFD members chatting with members of the Kosovan Deaf Community
2007- January- Ål, Norway, WFD Board Meeting
2007- present- World’s Congress Working Group
2006- December- Understanding Deaf Lives Through History, Keynote presenter Ongehoord Verleden: Doofbewustzjin in historisch perspectief, a history conference on the occasion of the launch of the first book on Flemish Deaf History.
Presentation at the 2009 WFDYS Junior Youth Camp in Norway
2006- October- Moscow, Russia, WFD Board Meeting
2006- October- Deaf Studies in the 21st Century and Understanding Deaf Lives, Workshops given to five successive groups of Frontrunners, an international leadership training program for Deaf youth at the Castberggård folkehøyskole in Denmark.
2006- August- Ownership of Deaf History, Third International Deaf Academics and Researchers Conference in Stockholm, Sweden.
Photo of presentation with Brian Greenwald at the Third International Deaf Academics and Researchers Conference in Stockholm, 2006.
2006- March- Prishtina, Kosovo, WFD Board Meeting
2005- November- Deaf Studies in the 21st Century and Understanding Deaf Lives, Workshops given to five successive groups of Frontrunners, an international leadership training program for Deaf youth at the Castberggård folkehøyskole in Denmark.
Photo of presentation at the Third International Deaf Academics and Researches Conference in Stockholm, 2006.
2005- October- We- Unwanted People, Presentation on disability and normalcy given to Regional Meeting of Folkehøyskole Teachers, Ål, Norway.
2005- September- Helsinki, Finland, WFD Board Meeting
2005- March- Buenos Aires, Argentina, WFD Board Meeting
2005- present- Chair WFD Board Organizational Review Group
2004- August- Deaf People and Genetics, Invited presenter to European Deaf Youth Forum in Copenhagen, Denmark.
2004- January- Helsinki, Finland, WFD Board Meeting
Photo with WFD Vice President Feliciano Sola Limia and members of the Kosovan Deaf Community
2003-2007- WFD Board Member
2003- September- Sign of the Times, Invited presenter for the Victoria, Australia Deaf Society’s Occasional Lecture Series.
Photo with Vivien Batory, then WFDYS President, 2005 Kosovo
Photo with Mark Wheatley, Executive Director, EUD and WFD Board member from Uganda, Deborah Oyuu Iyute
2003- September- Beyond the Cultural Turn: Deaf Culture in the Twenty-First Century, Keynote speaker at the Second Australasian Deaf Studies Conference, Sydney, Australia.
2003- September- Deaf-Hearing Interactions, Victorian Deaf Children’s Society, Melbourne, Australia.
2003- September- Transnational Deaf Lives, Led student seminar on Deaf Studies at LaTrobe University, Melbourne, Australia.
2003- Montéal, Canada WFDYS Youth Camp
2003- January- Genetics and Deaf People: Some Questions to Consider, Aal Folkehoeyskole for Døve in Norway.
2002- July- Future Peril: Emerging Challenges to the Global Deaf Community, Plenary presenter at the Deaf Way II, a major international conference in Washington, D.C.
2002- May- Colombian Government Bilingual Project, Invited speaker for a weeklong series of in-staff training workshops at the National Institute of the Deaf and their model bilingual school in Bogotá, Colombia.
2002- March- Bilingual Education and the World Federation of the Deaf, Keynote presenter at an international conference on bilingual education. Bogotá, Colombia.
2000- Malaysia First Asia Pacific Deaf Youth Camp
Photo with participants at the WFDYS Junior Youth Camp in Lisbon, Portugal 2001
2000- March- Cross-Minority Comparisons: The Sami and Deaf People, presented results of research trip among Sami indigenous peoples of northern Norway to faculty and students at the Center for Deaf Studies, University of Bristol, England.
1999-2003- President, WFDYS
1999- Brisbane, Australia WFDYS Youth Camp
1999- WFD Congress, International President, Commission on Deaf Culture and the Arts
1998-2003- WFD News Columnist
1999 WFDYS Youth Camp in Brisbane, Australia
1997- October- Deaf Culture, Panelist, forum on Deaf Culture and Art at the Second National Culture Festival of the Deaf in Dresden, Germany.
1997- September- Deaf History from a Cultural Persepctive, presented at the Third Deaf History International Conference in Trondheim, Norway.
1995- Zell Am See, Austria WFDYS Youth Camp
1995-1999- Youth Expert
1995-1999- Vice President, WFDYS