Audra leads earAccess, a social enterprise that is disrupting the hearing aid industry, providing hearing services (testing for hearing loss and hearing aids) that are 70% cheaper than comparable options. Today, there are 466 million people living with hearing loss, of whom 34 million are children, many living in low-income countries. earAccess has been helping provide an affordable solution to hearing loss and hearing aids for the world’s mostremote communities. Audra also helped grow World Wide Hearing, an NGO focused on helping children with hearing loss.
“As a young child, it was the moment I realized my father needed his hearing aids to hear me, and so did my aunt, his sister. That has remained with me my whole life, the knowledge that without hearing aids they would be completely isolated.” Her goal is to ensure that every person with hearing loss, no matter how poor, can reach his or her full potential.
