Tammy Eckard, EdD, is a Senior Lecturer in the Center for Languages, Literatures, and Cultures (CLLC) in the American Sign Language Program at the Ohio State University and an advisor for the Deaf-Hearing OSU (DHOSU) club. Dr. Eckard has been a multi-level instructor of American Sign Language since 2007, with specialization in public sector organizations, policies for public leaders, strategic management, second language acquisition and learning, curriculum development, and educational assessment and consulting.

Her teaching experience includes d/Deaf education, interpreter training, ASL secondary education, and ASL postsecondary education. Additionally, Dr. Eckard brings over 20 years of experience as a nationally certified interpreter and licensed educator. She served on the minor development committee to build the curriculum for the ASL studies minor. She created the minor course ASL 2104: American Sign Language Conversational Discourse and the ASL Teaching, Language, & Collaboration (ASL-TLC) teaching forum.  

Dr. Eckard is passionate about and advocates for recruiting and retaining deaf students in higher education. Her research ranges from the development of deaf cultural and linguistic identities to the examination of organizational culture and cultural spaces and investigating career decisions while attending a hearing institution.