Diane L. Barkstrom, ASL Deaf Studies, Northeastern University, ASL/English Interpreting two-year Program at Northeastern University. ASL/English Interpreting Program at Deaf Adult Service in Buffalo NY. Graduate of Hartford Conservatory, Dance Major. Certified CI & CT from RID. Qualified level certified from ASLTA. Member of RID, NAD, ASLTA, CIT, Metro RID, Capital Region RID, Genesee Valley Region RID. 10 years interpreting experience. 3 years teaching experience.
David Bar-Tzur, BS, Physics, MS, Deaf Studies, Cert.RID,Inc.CI and CT, Member RID,Inc., 15 years of interpreting experience, 12 years of leading workshops.
Sandra I. Benintende, MEd. Education of the Deaf, Cert. RID, Inc. IC/TC, 25 years of experience including: interpreting, teaching and teaching ASL
Linda Benton, MS.Ed. from Syracuse University. Former curriculum developer and Graduate Adjunct Professor at Stated University of NY at Albany and Russell Sage College, Troy, NY. 20 years experience in staff training and teaching adult learners. Invited presenter at national conferences around the country.
Michelle Blakely - Grad from SUNY Geneseo- 1974 w/ Elem. K-6 and Deaf Ed.K-12. Masters in Deafness Education from NYU-10/79 And masters in Admin. from Calif. State University at Northridge via fed grant NLTP - National Leadership and Training Program in the area of Deafness-certificate is reciprocal in NY.-August '86. Have 15 hrs left in the doctoral program in deafness research at NYU but doubt follow through as my triplets will soon be 10 yrs old. Taught D/H BOCES program in Guilderland High School from 2/13/76 until 9/3/01 then took El. Ed job K-1-2 in Altamont Edl School still with BOCES D/HH.
Leisa R. Boling, AAS-NTID/Major in Mechanical Art, BFA-RIT/Major in Graphic Design, MS-Deaf Education/Major in Integrated Art and Deaf Studies, ASLTA Qualified Cert, Member NAD and ASLTA, 10 years of experience in teaching ASL and Deaf studies.
Laura Braggiotti has worked in the interpreting field for the last 15 years. Her focus is academic interpreting, K-12. Her degrees include an AAS in Interpreting and Support Services, a Bachelor's in English, and a Master's in Elementary Education. In order to keep current in the field, Laura has attended a wide variety of interpreting related courses, workshops and conventions. In addition, she has presented at both schools and conventions. The workshop she is currently presenting with her colleague Jeanne Wells is a result of years of musing and experimenting with various aspects of the academic interpreting situation. Her "resources" have been and continue to be the children themselves, colleagues, and deaf community members. She considers this presentation a creative work in progress and welcomes the input and insights of others. It is hoped that this presentation will stimulate more ideas that will lead to positive changes in this important area of helping the students to help themselves.
Brenda Brown - AA degree in Liberal Arts, BS degree in Community and Human Services with a concentration in Counseling for the Deaf, RID Inc. certified- CI and CT, member of CNYRID (Central New York RID), GVRRID (Genesee Valley RID), and RID, Inc., NAD (National Association of the Deaf), ESAD (Empire State Association of the Deaf), and ESSP (Educational Support Staff Personnel).
Karen Buckland, AAS Human Services, AAS Educational Interpreter, 13 years experience as an Educational Interpreter,10 years as director for the HANDS IN MOTIOIN SIGN CLUB in Bath, presently employed by Steuben-Allegany BOCES.
Michael Canale, AAS in Liberal Arts form Suffolk Community College, BS in Signed Language Interpreting from the University of New Mexico, MS in Counseling form the University of Minnesota. Doctoral candidate in Applied Linguistics at Columbia University. Certificate of Interpretation, and Certificate of Transliteration form the Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf. National Interpreter Certification Level 4 from the National Association of the Deaf. Member of the Certification Council for the Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf. Member of RID Inc, NAD, AHEAD, CIT
Joanne W. Dermody, BS--Community & Human Services/Major in Sign Lanugage Communication; Cert. RID, Inc. CT; Member RID, Inc., Central NYRID; 18 years experience in Educational Interpreting (K-12; post-secondary & graduate programs)
Margaret Ericksen-Harvard BS Elementary Education; MA Deaf Education; 15 years experience interpreting
Stephanie Feyne BA - Theatre Arts, CSUN; Cert. RID: CSC, CI & CT, SC:L candidate (passed written); Member: CIT, RID; 25 years experience in teaching Interpreting.
Lynn Finton is an Assistant Professor at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf (NTID). She has taught in the department of American Sign Language and Interpreting Education for the past seventeen years. She completed her MS degree in Instructional Technology from the Rochester Institute of Technology. She has been RID certified since 1981. She has been actively involved in the field of interpreting, serving on local, state and national boards. She has presented numerous workshops in the field of interpreting throughout the country.
Jacqueline Frechette AAS, Media Production, ASLTA Provisional Certification, 3 years experience teaching of ASL.
Gary Garafola, BA in Psychology, Cert. RID, Inc: CI and CT, IC/TC, Member of RID, Inc. for over 20 years, Interpreter Trainer for over 20 years.
Donna Marie Geffen - Graduated from NTID with A.A.S. in 1984. I have been working at Good Samaritan Hospital Medical Center as Medical Laboratory Technician in West Islip for the past 19 years. I also teach ASL (credited courses) at Suffolk Community College in Selden for the last 16 years and I am a substitute-teacher at East Meadow Public Schools for the past 4 years. Now I teach ASL (credited courses) at Stony Brook University in Stony Brook in the summer since 1988.
Diane E Holmes: BS Elementary Ed. MA Deaf Education from Gallaudet University, NY Perm. Cert. in Teaching for Hearing(N-6) and Deaf students(All grades), 32 yrs. experience teaching hearing and deaf students(4-21yrs), 25 years interpreting and teaching sign lang., consultant and service provider for deaf children in hearing schools, craft business.
Christine Kovar, BS-Community and Human Services with an emphasis on Deaf and Hard of Hearing Children and Families. Cert. RID, Inc./ CI. , Member National RID, Executive Board Member CNYRID, 23 years of experience working with Deaf and H of H children in a numerous capacities...Educational Interpreter, 15 years; Community Interpreter, 20 years; Child and Family Advocate, 6 years; Assistant Supervisor of Summer Education program for Deaf and H of H children, 6 years.
Karen Lefebvre, CT-CI and ASLTA certified. 25 years of teaching and interpreting.
Alonna
M. Lamb CI,CT received her training at RIT/NTID and has been interpreting
for the past 15 years. Her practice specializes in legal,conference, educational
and performing arts interpreting. She has
also been consulting and training interpreters
for the past 12 years. Alonna is a member of NAD, RID, NAJIT, ASLTA and
is currently a board member of the local RID Affiliate chapter (GVRRID-Rochester,
NY).
Mary Darragh MacLean, certified interpreter, CSC and CI, MS degree in Deaf Education, Univ of Tenn, professional interpreter for over 20 yrs, teaches interpreting workshops and is adjunct instructor in the Interpreter Education Program at LaGuardia Comm College in NYC, owns and manages an interpreter referral service company, Sign Language Resources, Inc. that covers the Hudson Valley region, NYC, Westchester, and northern NJ.
Lewis Merkin,
CDI- currently staff interpreter for both the Office of Interpreting Services,
NYC Board of Education and the Helen Keller National Center. He is
the immediate past president of NYC Metro RID and recently served as the
Assistant Coordinator of the ASL/English team for Deaf Way II, an international
conference.
Bill Moody, BFA (Trinity University) and MFA (Art Institute of Chicago) in theater; Cert.RID, Inc: CSC/CI/CT; Member RID; 30 years of experience interpreting (ASL, French Sign Language); 5 years experience teaching French Sign Language, 10 years experience teaching interpreting.
Maureen Moose lives in a rural area of northern New York where she provides training for educational interpreters, works as a freelance interpreter, and substitutes in the local school. Maureen has a MEd with a concentration in linguistics, a Bachelor degree in liberal studies and an Associate degree in interpreting from the National Technical Institute for the Deaf. Her main areas of interest are educational interpreting, language acquisition, and sociolinguistics but she also enjoys cross county skiing, backpacking and white water kayaking as time and weather allow.
Ray S. Parks Jr., BA in Physics, MA in Physics, Doctoral Studies in Educational Administration; Cert.RID,Inc. CDI-P, ASLTA Professional Cert., Member RID, CIT, NAD; 28 years of experience in teaching ASL and Interpreting.
Cheryl "Pivy" Pivorunas. BA-Biology, MS-Biology, MEd-Deaf Education, RID certificate-RSC, State Teacher's Certificates (NYS)- Deaf Education (K-12) and Biological Science (7-12), 15 years of teaching ASL, part-time.
Zenna L. Preli, BA, Public Communications, Certificate in Interpreting, Cert. RID Inc., CI, 12 years Interpreting Experience.
Jennie Sabo, AS-Liberal Studies, BS-with a concentration in Interpreting, Certification RID, Inc. CT, ASLTA Provisional Certification, Member of RID, Inc., NAD, CNYRID, GVRRID, 7 years of experience in teaching ASL and 12 years of experience in Interpreting.
Kellie Shanahorn, BA - Liberal Studies; MA - in Interpretation; RID CI/CT; Member RID, Inc.; 6 years interpreting experience.
Carrie E. Snyder, Cert.RID,Inc. CI/CT, Member RID,Inc., 8 years educational interpreting experience, 3 years freelance experience.
Sharon C. Staehle, BA-Communication Arts, graduate studies credits in Linguistics and Education, Members: ASLTA and NAD, 26 years of experience in teaching Deafness and Deaf-Blindness, 15 years of experience in DB Interpreting, 10 years of experience in teaching ASL Interpreting.
Kimberly Stefani Kelstone, CI/CT : AAS - Educational Interpreting, BS - ASL Studies, CI/CT from RID, Inc., 13 years Interpreting experience, 4 years teaching ASL/Interpreting.
Sandra Thompson- several interpreting courses at NTID, courses at MCAHI, RSD.25 years experience interpreting ASL, PSE, taught community classes in Sign, Genesee Valley BOCES Summer Institute Sign Language teacher. Educational Interpreter K- 12, Houghton College.
Julia C. Weisenberg - AAS-Sign Language Interpreting - Suffolk County Community College 1994, BA - Hispanic Languages & Literature (minor - French) 1998, MA -Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) 2001, PhD student - Dept of Linguistics, SUNY Stony Brook 2000-present RID certified CI/CT. Instructor/ Coordinator of the ASL Studies/Interpreter Training Program of Suffolk County Community College, NY, Eight years of interpreting experience, Teacher of ASL/Interpreting 1999-present. Research interests: ASL loanword phonology, code-mixing in sign language interpretation. Member of: Conference of Interpreter Trainers (CIT), National Association of Deaf (NAD), Registry of Interpreters for Deaf (RID), Linguistic Society of American (LSA), American Sign Language Teachers Association (ASLTA), Teaching English to Speakers Of Other Languages (TESOL).
Jeanne M. Wells, BA-Deaf Education, MS-Instructional Technology, Cert. RID, Inc. CI, CT, CSC, OIC:V-S, OIC:S-V, Member CIT, RID,Inc., NAD, ASLTA, 24 years of experience in teaching Interpreting, past CIT Region I representative, past GVRRID president, specialties: ASL-English Interpreting, Educational Interpreting.
Karen Whittingham attended Cal State Northridge Interpreter training program and received her CSC from RID in 1982 and NAD IV in 1995. She is currently the Department head of interpreters for the Board of Cooperative Education in St Lawrence County. She has professionally interpreted for over 25 Years.