Marlee Matlin Demonstrates the Advocacy Power of a Tweet

Marlee Matlin may be an Academy Award-winning actress, but she’s also well-known as an advocate for the disabled.

Matlin spends most of her recent Media Beat interview discussing Billion Words March, her ongoing campaign to crowdsource the closed captioning process for digital video. In order to promote the initiative, she also posted on HuffPo last week about her ongoing attempts to improve the practice for the benefit of the 30 million Americans (and millions more abroad) who are deaf or hard of hearing.

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