Sanja Tarczay

Dr. Sanja Tarczay is a Deafblind Woman who is a founder and current president of the Croatian Association of Deafblind Persons "Dodir". She is the creator of one of the first Croatian Sign Language courses in Croatia, courses for SSPs, and courses for Deafblind interpreters. She is the founder of the Croatian Sign Language Interpreting Centre. Since 2008, she has been the head of the practicum for Deafblindness at the Faculty of Education and Rehabilitation Sciences and a lecturer on Sign Language at the University of Applied Health Studies at the University of Zagreb. She also held lectures at numerous other universities, nationally and internationally as a guest lecturer. She has published several expert and research papers and articles as a sole contributor and co-author. From 2013 to 2022, Sanja was the president of the European Deafblind Union (EDbU), and she was also a member of the Grant-making committee of the Disability Rights Fund (DRF). Sanja has been the president of the World Federation of the Deafblind (WFDB) since October 2022, an active member of the OPD Steering Group of the International Disability and Development Consortium (IDDC), a participant in the OHCHR Community 2030 Initiative and an IDA board member.