text: She is a motivational speaker and lives in Georgia with her husband John McCallum, whom she met when he served as a Congressional aide to Speaker Newt Gingrich. They have four children: John, James, Wilson, and William.
  Whitestone was appointed by President Bush and confirmed by the US Senate to the National Council on Disability, but she resigned in 2010. She was also a board member of the Helen Keller Foundation for Research and Education from 1995 to 2002.
  Whitestone was appointed to the Advisory Council for the National Institutes of Health on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, in 2002.
  She has appeared on CNN, ABC's Good Morning America and The View. She has also been in print articles for USA Today and People Magazine.
  In 2003, she filmed two public service announcements to bring awareness about "Dogs for the Deaf", which is a hearing-dog organization.
  Whitestone became a spokesperson for the Starkey Hearing Aid Foundation and for Cochlear America.
  She has written four books: Listening with My Heart, Believing in the Promise, Let God Surprise You, and Heavenly Crowns. She has also spearheaded the nation's largest multimedia public service campaign to identify early hearing loss, which was created by the Miss America Organization and the Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf.