Michele Cook, a professor and geoscientist at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, speaks next to Kate Scharer, a research geologist with the Earthquake Science Center of the U.S. Geological Survey while signing in American Sign Language during an accessible field trip to the San Andreas Fault organized by the International Association of Geoscience Diversity Thursday, Sept. 26, 2024, in San Bernadino, Calif. Cooke is also partially deaf. (AP Photo/Ryan Sun)