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Robyn holds a PhD in Translation and Interpreting from Heriot-Watt University, a degree very few people anywhere hold. She spent several years at the National Center for Deaf Health Research at the University of Rochester, and she designed the Translation and Interpreting Theory course she now teaches at Rochester Institute of Technology.

Nearly thirty years in ASL translation and interpretation, including work for the United Nations.

Nigel teaches Linguistics at the University of British Columbia and the University of Victoria.

Katiewu is a CDI with a BS in Deaf Education. She teaches linguistics, specializes in legal interpreting, and has decades of sign language translation behind her. Her work centers on the quality of access Deaf communities actually receive.

Lamar is a native signer who has spent more than twenty years translating and teaching ASL.

He is a nationally Certified Deaf Interpreter with a BS in Psychology, Sociology, and Deaf Studies, and has worked in classrooms, courtrooms, and hospitals.

Cody has spent nearly two decades leading Deaf-hearing translation teams. He was raised on English and Signed Exact English and didn’t learn ASL until high school, which gave him a strong command of both and a close ear for where they diverge. He favors vivid visual storytelling, held to strict translation principles.

Twenty-four years interpreting across telecommunications, medical, and education settings.

Wilfredo is nationally certified and trilingual, and has spent more than a decade of that time working alongside ASL translators on accuracy and cultural fit.

Mathew has more than 30 years in live interpretation and in preparing ASL translations.

He has advised teams on translation quality for much of that, and has a reputation for breaking down complicated material and for being hard to satisfy on message integrity.

Andrew is Translation Lead at Cirrus, Inc., where he runs ASL translation projects and chairs the Cirrus Translation Advisory Committee.

He has interpreted ASL for over two decades, including for international audiences, and holds a BEI certification.