Alex Jones
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Who is Alex Jones?
Alex Jones is an advocate for people who are Deaf or have a hearing impairment.
Jones is a Co-Founder and Brand Ambassador of Access Innovation Media. The company has developed Ai-Live, a realtime, word accurate speech-to-text captioning program using broadband technology which featured and won on ABC1’s The New Inventors.
Jones was born to a Deaf family in Michigan, U.S.A. A graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, he was recruited to Australia in 1997 by the Australian Theatre of the Deaf. He was the Director of the 2005 Deaflympic Games Cultural Festival in Melbourne and toured Australia with Heads Up! – a theatre-in-education production. Jones appeared on Australian drama, All Saints, from 2001 to 2002, playing Lyle Slater.
Jones has served as an ambassador for Don't DIS my ABILITY every year since 2004 and is currently the Chairperson of the Deafness Forum of Australia; a body representing the interests of people with hearing impairments, or chronic disorders of the ear.
On May 9, 2014, Alex, the co-founder of the Ai-Media stepped down but remained a shareholder of the company.
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