Lori Whynot, Mentorship (email)

Lori A. Whynot, M.A., CI and CT is a recent transplant to California from Boston. She brings with her over 18 years of freelance interpreting experience and several years of mentoring and teaching novice interpreters at Northeastern University, Boston. She received her Master’s degree in 1998 from Lesley University, Cambridge, MA, in Intercultural Relations; Intercultural Communication, as it relates to interpreting in a multi-cultural society. Lori lived and worked in southern France in 2004, has interpreted in varied international Deaf Conferences, and is currently a member of the World Association of Sign Language Interpreters (WASLI). Her working languages are English, ASL, French, French Sign Language (LSF), and International Sign (IS). She specializes in medical, mental health, government and legislative interpreting, and working with CDIs. Deaf people became significant in Lori’s life in 1986 and she hasn’t stopped signing since then. She started the SDCRID Mentorship Project in 2007 with newfound colleagues in San Diego, and currently teaches at Mesa Community College in the Interpreter Training Program. When not interpreting she spends most of her free time on one of her 5 bicycles, riding, and/or racing with an amateur women’s cycling team.

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