Sanja Tarczay was born in Zagreb, as a deaf child in a deaf family and later became Deafblind. In 1994, she established the Croatian Association of Deafblind Persons -Dodir -where she currently serves as President. She is the creator of a Croatian Sign Language course, courses for SSPs, courses for Deafblind interpreters and the founder of the Croatian Sign Language Interpreting Centre. Since 2008, Sanja Tarczay is the head of exercises for the subject Deafblindness at the Faculty of Education and Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Zagreb, and a lecturer on Sign Language at the University of Applied Health Studies in Zagreb. She has also lectured at numerous other universities at home and abroad as a guest lecturer. She has published several expert and research papers, both as a sole contributor and as co-author and participated in 40 conferences at home and abroad. From 2013 till 2022, she was elected as the president of the European Deafblind Union. Sanja earned her Doctorate degree in 2014; her thesis was titled “Meeting Challenges - Deafblind Interpreting From a User's Perspective.” She is fluent in five Sign Languages including: Croatian Sign Language, British Sign Language (BSL), International Sign Language (ISL), Swedish Sign Language and American Sign Language. Sanja Tarczay ’s work was repeatedly recognized. She received a number of awards and honours. In 2015 the President of the Republic of Croatia, Dr. Ivo Josipović, has awarded her the honour of the ORDER OF THE CROATIAN STAR WITH THE EFFIGY OF KATARINA ZRINSKA, an honour given for the extraordinary services for healthcare, social welfare and the promotion of social moral values, recognition, and creation of an environment for the quality of life of deafblind persons in Croatia and the world. Currently, Sanja Tarczay is the president of the World Federation of the Deafblind (elected October 2022) and is fighting for the rights of Deafblind persons across the globe, promoting equality, accessibility, and rights for Deafblind persons.