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Membership Chair: Deborah McHenry Certification Maintenance Program Chair: Dawn Duran Outlying Areas Chair: Currently seeking volunteers *Contact us* Publications Chair: Teresa Edwards Professional Development Chair: Amber Sidwell Student Involvement Chair: Shane Montemayor Public Relations Chair: Cody Simonsen

Hello, my name is Shane Montemayor and I grew up in Provo, Utah. I have been fluent in American Sign Language for the past 10 years and have been interpreting since 2014. One of the biggest influences to become an ASL/English interpreter was my deaf cousin, Keiko who lives in Okinawa, Japan. We first met…

Teresa Langford Edwards BA, CI/CT has been interpreting since 1995.  She loves learning and loves teaching.  She currently works at the VRSII at Sorenson where she has the privilege to work with aspiring interpreters.  She has two beautiful children and enjoys her time with her family, as well as the time she spends working with…

Patricia M. Lowry was born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia and Washington, D.C. She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Communication Arts from Gallaudet University.  Patricia worked at several deaf schools as a residential educator for about 25 years. She served on the AWDAS board (Abused Deaf Women’s Advocacy Services) for 5 years and…

Rhonda Amicone took interest in American Sign Language at the age of 6. She learned a few more signs in 5th grade and then the ABC manual alphabet. In high school, they offered a foreign language credit for ASL and she enrolled in the class. It was there that she knew she wanted a career…

My name is Greg See, I am originally from Calgary, Canada and I have lived in Utah since 2005. I attended the University of Utah as a Biochemistry major, but after getting involved in the  Deaf community here in Utah I decided that what I really wanted to do was interpret, so I changed my…

Dawn Duran is a RID NIC Advanced, SC:L and Utah State Professionally Certified Interpreter.  She hails from Ga, but came to Utah and earned her B.S. in Human Development focusing on Language Development from Brigham Young University.  There she met Deaf friends and found out that if you are the only hearing person in a…