An introductory message from Patrick Boudreault, the Executive Editor of the Deaf Studies Digital Journal, about its current team members, mission statement, federal funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities, and collaboration with Michigan Publishing Services for an accessible, robust, sustainable, and multilingual and multimodal platform which integrates the journal with library databases. Highlights of the collaboration with the Deaf Studies Conference: Transformations 2018 for this special issue with conference proceedings are shared.