Leah Katz-Hernandez is currently Communications Manager at the Office of the CEO, Microsoft. Previously, she spent a decade in the public sector. Leah Katz-Hernandez, who is deaf and uses sign language, first joined the Obama world as a campaign volunteer and worked in the Press Office of First Lady Michelle Obama before becoming the Senior Operations Coordinator for President Obama’s West Wing. She is a contributing author of the book “West Wingers: Stories from the Dream Chasers, Change Makers, and Hope Creators Inside the Obama White House,” and a current board member of American Association of People with Disabilities.