Meet the Founders
Brad McKenna brings more than 20 years of technology experience and a lifelong perspective as a
person with hearing loss. His expertise in digital media, assistive technology, and accessibility supports DTT’s technical operations, content production, and technology-focused education.
Julie DeMatteo-Lane is a Special Education teacher with more than 20 years of experience and a lifelong person with hearing loss. Her background in education, advocacy, and lived experience informs DTT’s educational content, presentations, accessibility work, and community engagement.
Mission
To inform, educate, an entertain those with and those without typical hearing about what it is like living in a world not designed with our needs in mind.
Vision
Down the Tubes Productions validates the struggles of people with hearing loss and introduces those struggles to people without hearing loss.
The DTT Difference
National organizations tend to focus on broad initiatives and legislation affecting the Deaf and Hard of Hearing community. Down the Tubes Productions occupies a different space, combining lived experience, humor, education, and accessible digital content to make hearing loss relatable to people with and without typical hearing.
Meet the Rest of the Staff
Rocky, Chief Chaos Officer
Happy, Chief Cuddles Officer
In Memory of
Tessie
Weezy