GOVERNANCE
Meet the Boards:
President
Jenny Gough
Vice-President
Vacant
Interim Secretary
Eillen Forestal
Treasurer
Max Williamson
Director of Professional Development
Carole Lazorisak
Director of Communication
Jose Ovi Velasquez
Our Mission:
CIT’s mission is to empower educators (teachers, mentors, language models, workshop presenters, researchers, etc.) as they prepare interpreters to work effectively with the wider society in which Deaf people live.
Vision Statement:
CIT fosters the continued development of high-quality interpreter education to serve the diverse needs of the Deaf community. CIT and its members adhere to the following values. We:
- Recognize Deaf people’s linguistic rights and that languages and cultures are not static.
- Exist within the larger communities we serve and are actively engaged in cultural dialogues and interactions.
- Promote communities who have been, and continue to be, marginalized to work towards removing barriers that exist because of attitudes, beliefs, and systems that are oppressive and cause harm.
- Recruit educators and future interpreters who are representative of the communities with whom we work.
- Support critical thinking, research, excellent teaching/learning practices, activism, networking, and community building to ensure that interpreter educators and students are engaged in real-world experiences.
- Adhere to standards, ethics, teaching practices, and curriculum that develop interpreters who are qualified, compassionate, engaged, silent, and cross-culturally aware.
- Adhere to pedagogy that leads the interpreting practices that are based on the norms and values embraced by Deaf communities.
- Promote communities who have been, and continue to be, marginalized to work towards removing barriers that exist because of attitudes, beliefs, and systems that are oppressive and cause harm.