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Cynthia
Cave |
Cynthia moved to Melbourne six years ago. She comes from Brisbane and has six siblings. She is passionate about interpreting, both the profession and what ASLIA does. Cindy loves her family, sport, good food and current (and ancient) affairs; but she hates eggs, pumpkin, sultanas and the thought that okay is good enough. She is currently interim National Sports Administrator for Deaf Sports Australia. | ||
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Sandra
Leane |
Sandra has been involved in teaching and interpreting stretching back to the 1980s and is one of the founding members of the first Victorian interpreting association (AVID) She now works part time teaching specialist modules in the Diploma of Auslan at Kangan Batman Institute of TAFE and part time as a staff interpreter at Vicdeaf. She is married to Tony, a very supportive partner and has three beautiful (almost) grown up daughters who have a picture of her on the fridge in case her hectic schedule means they forget what she looks like. She is very proud to still be part of this wonderful dynamic association. |
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Meredith
Bartlett |
Meredith first had contact with the Deaf community as a teacher of the deaf at VSDC in the 70s. She was one of the first freelance interpreters in Victoria in the early 80s and has been a committee member of ASLIA Vic since its formation as AVID (including being President for ten years). Meredith worked as a Welfare Worker for the Deaf for seven years, and then as an interpreter in secondary and tertiary settings for a few years. She currently works as a staff interpreter for the Victorian Deaf Society, and has been teaching part-time in the Diploma of Interpreting at RMIT for 12 years. She gained her MA in Applied Linguistics from Monash University in 2000, and is currently studying for a PhD in Linguistics at Melbourne University. | ||
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Susan Emerson |
Susan has been a freelance interpreter for over 20 years! She comes from a Deaf family and is the only hearing child of four siblings. Over the last three years Susan has worked internationally as an interpreter and interpreter trainer advisor in developing countries such as Kosovo, Albania, and Taipei. Presently she is working and living in Cambodia as an interpreter/interpreter trainer. She is loving the challenge … an avenue of challenging herself but at the same time empowering others to open doors to new opportunities. She has also had the privilege of working as an international interpreter in places such as South Africa, Spain, Serbia, Morocco, Kosovo and Croatia!!! In her spare time (what is left of it!!!) she enjoys quality time with her partner, family, weekends away, keeping healthy and fit … life is spontaneous for Susan! You just never know what is around the corner for her!!! She loves to travel and go places that have not yet been explored. Because of her life experiences she feels she is able to contribute to ASLIA in different areas … promoting ASLIA as a professional body and doing her best for its members. Quality in everything is important to Susan! Susan is also chairperson for the Auslan Interpreter of the Year Awards 2007 and is one of the editors for ASLIA’s Across the Board magazine. |
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Julie
Judd |
Julie has been accredited at NAATI Interpreter level for the past 18 years and in the field for the past 20+ years. |
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Eliza has been a para-professional interpreter for seven years, working extensively in tertiary educational settings. She enjoys running, swimming and Spring Carnival racing. She also loves cooking, catering events and taking her dogs to the beach. Eliza would like to do more volunteer work with Deafblind people. |
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Teresa Paulette |
Teresa grew up in Gippsland and after moving to Melbourne to gain her Para-professional interpreter accreditation, she returned home to establish the Gippsland Auslan Interpreting Service. After two and half years, she has returned to Melbourne and have been working as a freelance interpreter since. She enjoys community interpreting and the challenge of working in new and unfamiliar situations. Teresa is looking forward to being involved with the ASLIA Vic. committee this year. |
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Carla Anderson |
Carla, over many years (won't divulge the year as you would be able to figure out her actual age!!), has provided deafblind and general relay interpreting services in various settings both in the USA and Victoria. She gained her Masters in Counselling in the US. She is currently the Manager of the Deafblind services at Able Australia (formerly known as The Deafblind Association). Workshops have been facilitated by her on deafblind interpreting issues and on general aspects of deafblindness. Carla is a proud mother of three very active teenagers and one almost "adult". (Aaron, Benn, Casey and Erica. Their ages range from 20 to 14 years old). She is also very proud to be married to Phil Harper! Her hobbies include camping, walking, reading and being with the family. She is extremely honoured to be on the committee after being one of the co founders of ASLIA . She was actively involved in the 2007 interpreting mentorship program. |
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Ryan Gook |
Ryan is a Para-professional interpreter and is the managing director of Auslan Services. He takes pride in not only his own professionalism, but in also promoting the professionalism of all Auslan interpreters. He is passionate about the provision of high level working conditions for interpreters as well as the provision of a quality interpreting service to clients. He has worked in the interpreting field for several years and has run Auslan Services for the last eight years. He is also a proud husband and father, with three young children. |
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Ross Onley-Zerkel |
Ross is Deaf and has been a casual Deaf interpreter (DRI) since 2001. He did a refresher Deaf interpreting qualification in 2006 and trained 15 Deaf students in 2007 about Deaf Interpreting. He sat for the NABS test and is at this stage still waiting to hear the results! Ross is very passionate about Deaf interpreting and is looking at ways for Deaf interpreters to do PDs, workshops, training, platform interpreting, deafblind interpreting etc. as the trend is growing rapidly...so watch this space!!! On the personal side, he has a snake at home but doesn't take it out for walks! |
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Fiona Brindle |
Fiona was accredited as a NAATI Para-professional interpreter in December 2007. For over seven years she has worked in the Information Technology sector, with five of those years working for an environmental organisation. After receiving career guidance counselling, Fiona changed her career path from IT to interpreting, and is now keenly focussed on gaining the skills needed to become an excellent interpreter. Aside from interpreting, her other passions include the environment, politics, yoga, reading and bush walking. |
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