Top 20 American Deaf Influencers on Instagram (Jul 2026)

We found 69 deaf Influencers in United States
These influencers mention 'deaf' in their Instagram bio and have audiences primarily in United States. Here are the top 20. To run a custom search, check out Modash's influencer discovery features (free to try).
07/27/2026
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1. Savannah Dahan

United States

hey bestie! glad you’re here 🫶🏼 deaf girlie 🎀 creator • performer • dreamer signing my heart out 💗 💌 savvyasl@gmail.com

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2. Original Hockey Memes

▪️I'm blind, I'm deaf, I'm a hockey ref👨🏻‍🦯 ▪️Best meme coverage of the NHL 🏒 ▪️DM for business 📩 ▪️Est. 2013, San Jose

Followers
138.2k
Fake followers
17.05%
Engagement rate
2.98%
Average Reel plays
140.3k
Audience gender
female
14.01%
male
85.99%
Engagement rate benchmark
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Audience location by country
United States
56.01%
Canada
29.61%
Sweden
1.87%
Finland
1.39%
Russia
1.04%
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3. rach, Lovely Red 💋

United States

public diary of tending my inner garden Deaf, AuDHD, and Lovely NYU M.A. in Media, Culture, & Comm Poet | Speaker | ASL performer | Cultural framer

Followers
123.8k
Fake followers
21.9%
Engagement rate
2.42%
Average Reel plays
31k
Audience gender
female
74.92%
male
25.08%
Top performing Reels
  1. 31 725
  2. 17 567
  3. 13 717
Engagement rate benchmark
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Audience location by country
United States
68.37%
Canada
4.12%
United Kingdom
3.34%
India
2.35%
Australia
2.03%
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4. Brad Klein

United States

🤟 Proud CODA (Deaf parents❤️) 🎤 Comedy in ASL & English 🍿 Follow for new videos weekly ✉️ brad@oncloudklein.com

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6. Watch Shaheem Read 📖

United States

Main page @shaheem Deaf/HOH LipLocked 📖 Request? Tag me/DM me.

Followers
63.3k
Fake followers
19.74%
Engagement rate
11.98%
Average Reel plays
28.5k
Audience gender
female
85.7%
male
14.3%
Engagement rate benchmark
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Audience location by country
United States
87.72%
Canada
1.99%
United Kingdom
1.19%
Australia
0.65%
Brazil
0.58%
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7. Renca Dunn, PhD

United States

Posting NOT your ordinary stuff ✨Portuguese & Mexican + a sprinkle of Irish. Deaf & unashamed. Content creator, actress, advocate✨

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8. 𝔾𝕠𝕕𝕤 ℂ𝕙𝕚𝕝𝕕✝️

United States

𝗟𝗟𝗢🕊️❤️‍🩹 - 𝗙𝗲𝗯 𝟱, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟯 𝕃𝕊𝕎𝕋 🐈‍⬛ ℂℂ𝔽ℂ 👆 𝔻𝔼𝔸𝔽🦻 𝟛𝕩 ℙ𝕒𝕣𝕥𝕟𝕖𝕣 𝕊𝕥𝕦𝕟𝕥 ℂ𝕙𝕒𝕞𝕡 𝟚𝕩 𝔾𝕣𝕒𝕟𝕕 ℕ𝕒𝕥𝕚𝕠𝕟 ℂ𝕙𝕒𝕞𝕡 𝟚𝕩 𝕎𝕣𝕝𝕕 ℂ𝕙𝕒𝕞𝕡 𝟚𝕩 𝕊𝕦𝕞𝕞𝕚𝕥 ℂ𝕙𝕒𝕞�...

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10. Sara Miller, M.S.Ed

United States

Deaf | Latina | Deaf Educator Advocate for the Deaf community, accessibility, inclusion, & equity Founder of @languagepriority 👇🏼Shop for apparel here

Followers
45.8k
Fake followers
16.57%
Engagement rate
2.29%
Average Reel plays
15.5k
Audience gender
female
83.52%
male
16.48%
Top performing Reels
  1. Spread the news — Barbie releases on Max on December 15th and will also include an ASL version featuring Leila Hanaumi - @todayiawaken ! I shared an article in my stories earlier this morning, but wanted to make a permanent spot for this in my feed! According to Warner Bros. Press Release: "Grounded in research and feedback from the Deaf community, as well as counsel from community leaders, Barbie with ASL was produced for Max featuring ASL performer Leila Hanaumi. Barbie with ASL will be displayed as a unique title in-app and can be identified by its key art with the sign language symbol." There will also be a special community showing on December 14th in collaboration with Deaf West Theater ( @deafwest ) where Leila will have a post-screening conversation with the Barbie star, Margot Robbie! This is very exciting to see more and more movies having an option for an ASL version to view onscreen! Yay for progress towards more inclusion🤟🏼 [image description: Infographic announcing ASL version of Barbie coming to Max on December 15th. Featuring a screenshot of the Barbie movie with the ASL performer overlaid, text below the screenshot reads: "Grounded in research and feedback from the Deaf community, as well as counsel from community leaders, Barbie with ASL was produced for Max featuring ASL performer Leila Hanaumi. Barbie with ASL will be displayed as a unique title in-app and can be identified by its key art with the sign language symbol."] #Barbie #InclusionMatters #EqualAccess #LanguageEquality #AmericanSignLanguage #ASL #Deaf #DeafCommunity #DeafCulture #Access #Accessibility #Inclusion #DeafEducation #TeacherOftheDeaf #DeafEd #DeafTeacher #TeachersOfInstagram
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  3. It’s been THIRTY-ONE (31) years since an ASL performer has been spotlighted equally beside their hearing performance peers at the Super Bowl. In 1993, Marlee Matlin ( @themarleematlin )and Garth Brooks ( @garthbrooks ) showed the world how it could and should be done and yet THREE DECADES have come and gone and this has yet to become the standard. (Yes, I posted about this last year and will continue to do so until something changes.) Technology is on a whole other level, yet we STILL can’t make room to prioritize accessibility. Picture-in-Picture (PIP) has been around for nearly 50 years and would be an easy solution to providing equal access, yet it STILL isn’t utilized at all for large televised events like the Super Bowl. What will it take? This is a serious question from me. What will it take for accessibility to be seen as a priority and not a burden? 😒💔 It’s time for a change. Yes, some changes are being made… but it’s almost like we’re going sideways instead of forward. Gaining EQUAL access to major televised events shouldn’t be so difficult. Especially when the technology exists. We shouldn’t have to have to use another device other than the TV/cable broadcast channel to view the ASL interpretation of the national anthem/halftime show. Put the performers side-by-side and/or utilize Picture-in-Picture. The Deaf community deserves at least that. We continue to advocate for ourselves, but dang… it’s exhausting. 😞 [Image descriptions pinned to top of comments] #EqualAccess #InclusionMatters #EqualAccessNow #Accessibility #SuperBowl #SuperBowlSunday #PictureInPicture #ASLPerformers #ASLInterpreters #DeafPerformers #DeafAwareness #DeafCommunity #DeafPride #DeafEd #DeafEducation #DeafEducator #TeachersOfInstagram
    3 379
Engagement rate benchmark
  • Median
Audience location by country
United States
75.96%
Canada
4.62%
United Kingdom
3.78%
Australia
2.22%
India
1.52%

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11. Liz & Mr. Breakfast

United States

Mr. Breakfast - Rescue. Deaf. Happiest dog to have existed. Buddha - Scary Smart. Rescue. Continuing the legacy of his big B.

Followers
31.4k
Fake followers
19.88%
Engagement rate
4.93%
Average Reel plays
10.9k
Audience gender
female
73.1%
male
26.9%
Engagement rate benchmark
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Audience location by country
United States
76.67%
Canada
4.39%
United Kingdom
4.13%
Australia
2.78%
Brazil
0.8%
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12. Oscar | That Deaf Dad 🤖

United States

📍SoCal Deaf dad life w bilateral cochlear implants Raising deaf & hard of hearing kiddos 💌thatdeafdad@madridmngmt.com

Followers
30.3k
Fake followers
20.38%
Engagement rate
17.84%
Average Reel plays
78.2k
Audience gender
female
86.56%
male
13.44%
Engagement rate benchmark
  • Median
Audience location by country
United States
62.62%
United Kingdom
3.7%
India
3.31%
Canada
2.72%
Brazil
2.3%
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13. hannah ☼ fish

United States

butch • deaf as hell & sarcastic about it • dc/pgh

Followers
29k
Fake followers
18.64%
Engagement rate
6.64%
Average Reel plays
31.6k
Audience gender
female
81.15%
male
18.85%
Top performing Reels
  1. 401 743
  2. 140 351
  3. 95 079
Engagement rate benchmark
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Audience location by country
United States
75.69%
Canada
6.06%
United Kingdom
2.16%
Australia
2.11%
Brazil
1.45%
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14. Jojo bruhhh

United States

Inspiring you to GO 🌍 Samoan Deaf Traveler 🇼🇸🤟🏽 Thriving in Chaos & Awkwardness Let’s vibe together ⤵️

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15. Mary Harman Whited

United States

Deaf | Latina | Neurodivergent | Disability Rights & Accessibility Expert | Holistic Living | Hair & Skin 📧 inquiry.mary@gmail.com @offthegridmissions

Followers
28.4k
Fake followers
18.88%
Engagement rate
7.01%
Average Reel plays
39.7k
Audience gender
female
74.99%
male
25.01%
Top performing Reels
  1. If you know, you know. 😅 (laughing emoji) In all seriousness, this has happened to me several times. Many hearing people don’t realize that it’s interpreters’ job to facilitate effective communication and interpret everything that is spoken/heard. When interpreters are interpreting a conversation, they are focused on interpreting; they are not there as a third-party to the conversation. Qualified interpreters will interpret everything that is said, regardless of who the message is directed to. All of my preferred, qualified interpreters will even sign, “Tell HER….” if the hearing person uses this language, which allows me to make a decision whether to gently inform them that they can and should address me directly. I always appreciate it when interpreters remain committed to their job and refrain from making personal interjections, as this ensures the deaf consumer is not disempowered and power dynamics are not impacted for the most part. I find this to be an example of an interpreter exercising their power ethically. One of my preferred, qualified interpreters who I work with frequently is often asked, “What’s your name?” by a hearing person at the beginning of an interaction. This interpreter will always interpret what the hearing person asks, and I will usually say something along the lines of, “you can respond if you’d like.” The interpreter will then say, “This is the interpreter speaking. My name is _____.” This helps clarify the interpreter’s role and does not disempower the deaf consumer. Have a funny story involving a hearing person and interpreter? Share in the comments! . . Transcript and reel description pinned in comments. . . #DeafCulture #Deaf #SignLanguage #ASL #AmericanSignLanguage #SignLanguageInterpreter #ASLInterpreter #Interpreter
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  2. Ha, I had fun with this one. In all seriousness, when hearing people interact with deaf people by way of a sign language interpreter, they should address the deaf person directly. Interpreters are there simply to interpret, not as somebody who is taking part in a conversation. I don’t get offended when a hearing person uses this type of language, but I usually take the opportunity to let them know that they can and should address me directly and that there is no need to use third-person language. I think this helps clarify interpreters’ roles and allows me to reclaim power as a deaf person. This is often well-received by hearing people, as many are genuinely not sure how to interact with deaf people and interpreters, and are often glad to learn this. Questions? Stories? Share in the comments! . . . . Transcript: (hearing person): “Tell HER….” (Interpreter): *interprets* “Tell HER…” (Deaf person): * looks to the side*: “Her?” (Deaf person): *looks back at the camera with a confused look* Read caption! Reel description: Mary, a Latina, is acting out a scene involving a hearing person, an interpreter, and a deaf consumer. The hearing character is wearing a long-sleeved maroon shirt. The interpreter is wearing a black long-sleeved shirt. The deaf character is wearing a long-sleeved heather gray sweater. Song: Talk To Me by Stevie Nicks Lyrics: “…Talk to me…” . . . . . #DeafCulture #SignLanguageInterpreter #ASLInterpreter #DeafHumor #DisabilityVisibility #DisabilityAwareness
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  3. Sadly, deaf people face this all the time, even though discriminating against deaf people and refusing to provide accommodations is illegal. We’ve personally run into countless situations where we were denied access to classes, despite being paying members. Not only is this illegal and incredibly frustrating, but this also contributes to the perpetuation of numerous health disparities affecting deaf people. It’s 2022 and the ADA is over 30 years old, but noncompliance continues to be rampant in every corner of deaf people’s lives. It’s high time that this changes. Here are a few tips and best-practices for gyms or businesses that provide wellness/fitness classes, both in-person and virtual: Include information about how to request accommodations in your class notices, websites, and etc. Eligible small businesses can claim tax credits on access expenditures, including the costs of ASL interpreters. Have a “Communication Access Plan” in place so you can easily fulfill your legal obligations and seamlessly provide accommodations. Organize training on accessibility, inclusion, and applicable disability laws. Engage in an interactive process; deaf people know their communication access needs best and are often more than happy to discuss options with you. For example, virtual classes hosted on a video conferencing platform like Zoom that are not as interactive (e.g. a yoga class where participants simply follow instructions), it might be satisfactory to utilize a Video Relay Service interpreter, but for a class that is more interactive and includes specialized terminology, Video Relay Service might not be appropriate or allowed per the ADA. Deaf, hard of hearing, deafblind, and deafdisabled people are entitled to equal access at gyms. Transcript and reel description are pinned in the comments. Additional information about the collaborators is also pinned in the comments. . . . #WellnessCoaching #Deaf #LivingHealthier #FitnessForAll #Discrimination #Accessibility #Inclusion #AccessibleYoga #AccessibleDesign
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Engagement rate benchmark
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Audience location by country
United States
73.58%
Canada
4.42%
United Kingdom
2.12%
India
1.68%
Brazil
1.2%
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17. Nicole

🌿| Deaf social worker ✨| Social Advocacy 🔆| raise awareness about Deaf Culture

Followers
24.4k
Fake followers
22.72%
Engagement rate
2.66%
Average Reel plays
5.8k
Audience gender
female
68.1%
male
31.9%
Engagement rate benchmark
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Audience location by country
United States
63.43%
India
5.61%
Canada
3.43%
Indonesia
2.36%
Brazil
1.65%
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18. Thomas H. Clerc

United States

curating deaf and hearing stuff. All original content is watermarked.

Followers
19.8k
Fake followers
15.31%
Engagement rate
7.11%
Average Reel plays
33.3k
Audience gender
female
66.54%
male
33.46%
Engagement rate benchmark
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Audience location by country
United States
62.32%
Australia
6.4%
United Kingdom
5.64%
Canada
3.73%
Germany
1.67%
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19. Blake

United States

👁See the world through my eyes! 🦻🏻Deaf Nonbinary transgender human being 🎮Hardcore Legend of Zelda Fan 💉5/24/16 🔪11/17/16 🏳️‍⚧️they/them

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20. Nyle DiMarco Foundation

United States

The Foundation works to improve the lives of every Deaf person in the world. #LEADK is our first partner.

Followers
14.3k
Fake followers
23.34%
Engagement rate
6.63%
Average Reel plays
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Audience gender
female
76.82%
male
23.18%
Engagement rate benchmark
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Audience location by country
United States
59.16%
United Kingdom
4.09%
Mexico
3.17%
Canada
2.73%
India
2.17%

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