Ken Levinson

LOFT Co-creator and Lead Counselor

Ken is a CPA and a Director in the Tax and Business Services group of Marcum, LLP, a national CPA firm.  He merged his former firm, Kornetsky, Levinson & Company, CPA's in San Francisco, into Marcum in 2023.  Prior to that, he was the Executive Director of The Children’s Hearing Institute in New York and a partner in another CPA practice in Los Angeles. Ken is currently the Chair of the Board of the Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing and has current and past service on boards of many other organizations. His involvement with the ADA resulted in an invitation to the White House when President Bush signed it into law.  Ken received the Honors of the Association from AG Bell at the 2006 Biennial Convention in Pittsburgh. His involvements have brought him recognition among his peers as Distinguished Alumni of his high school and as the Public Service Award recipient for the California Society of CPAs. Together with the late Donna Dickman, Ken co-created the LOFT program which debuted in 1996 at AG Bell’s Biennial Convention in Snowbird, Utah.  He is past President of the Board of the San Francisco Circus Center. Ken’s interest in the circus stemmed from his taking a clown class at the Clown Conservatory.

Catharine McNally

Lead Counselor

Catharine McNally has been a LOFT counselor since 2008 and is the past Chair of the AG Bell Board. She is a dedicated advocate for using technology to bridge the accessibility divide – constantly finding new uses for accessibility. Her influential work has been recognized through national leadership awards, honors, and national publications. In 2011, McNally was listed as "People to Watch" in the Washingtonian Magazine's Tech Titans feature, and the recipient of the American Association of People with Disabilities national leadership award. She lost her hearing at eight months old, learned Cued Speech at eighteen months old and received her first cochlear implant at the age of three. After graduating from Wake Forest University, she began her career in accessibility at VSA Arts, the Smithsonian Freer and Sackler Galleries, and the Kennedy Center for Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. she moved up to Washington, DC to begin a career in technology and accessibility leadership. McNally is the Sr. Program Manager for Accessibility at GitHub. During her (rare) free time you can find her on the golf course, trail running, or spending time with friends.

Danielle Paquin

Lead Counselor

Danielle is a certified Listening and Spoken Language Specialist and Teacher of the Deaf at New England Center for Hearing and Rehabilitation in Hampton, Connecticut. After graduating from Roger Williams University with a bachelor’s degree in Elementary Education and Psychology and a minor in Biology, she went to Smith College for a Masters in Education of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing. A native of Connecticut and UCONN Husky/Red Sox fan, Danielle moved to Texas to teach. She taught for 12 years at Sunshine Cottage School for Deaf Children, teaching PreKindergarten, 1st, 3rd, 4th and 5th grades. In 2015, she and her family moved back home to Connecticut. Danielle joined AG Bell/DHHS in 1999 and since then has served on the 2010 Convention Planning Committee, Preschool-Age Financial Aid Scholarship Committee, LEAP Focus Group, and the DHHS board as a Member-at-Large and Advisor to the College Leadership Committee. She is bilaterally implanted and learned Cued Speech while in college. Danielle loves to travel and explore the outdoors with her partner Tammy and 12 year old son Oliver. Danielle enjoys working out, playing volleyball and softball, cooking, gardening and relaxing by a fire in her backyard surrounded by family, her dogs Tank and Abbott and her chickens.