Bridget Sobek Dobyan, JD, is the executive director of the Hearing Industries Association (HIA), Washington, DC, and also served as HIA's Director of Public Policy and Advocacy from 2020 to 2023. Bridget, who has hearing loss and uses a bone-anchored hearing aid (BAHA), has also worked on Capitol Hill as a Legislative Director for a US representative, as a policy advisor to the Michigan Senate, and as government affairs manager for a DC-based energy efficiency advocacy organization.