Darlene Parker

Ms. Parker joined NCI in 1984 as a member of the real-time captioning staff and was the sixth person in the country to provide real-time captioning for live television. She was promoted to Supervisor and Trainer in 1988 and Director in 2007. She developed real-time training programs and has trained more than 200 real-time captioners. She was instrumental in the development of the Best Practices for Captioning adopted in the FCC March 2015 order and currently serves on the FCC’s Disability Advisory Committee.