Annette Miner & Loycene Sollman, Professional Development (email)

Annette Miner has a Master’s degree in Psychology and an Educational Specialist degree from Western Michigan University. She has been interpreting for 25 years and teaching interpreting for 15 years in various types of settings. She taught full time and coordinated the interpreter education program at Salt Lake Community College, taught part time at interpreting programs in San Diego, California, directed and taught courses in an online grant program to deliver education to interpreters working in K-12 settings, and has mentored working, pre-certified interpreters. She currently works as a Curriculum and Acreditation Specialist at the VRS Interpreting Institute. She has served for over 10 years on the Board of the Conference of Interpreter Trainers as President, Regional Representative, and currently, as Director of Research and Publications. She holds a Certificate of Interpretation, Certificate of Transliteration and NIC Master from the Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf and the Professional level of certification from the American Sign Language Teachers Association.

Loycene Sollman, CI and CT, NIC Master, has over 25 years in the field of ASL Interpreting. A transplant from Evansville, IN, Loycene has been a member of RID since 1985. Her involvement has included; Serving on the Board of Interpreting Standards, Vice President of the Interpreters Association of Evansville, Mentorship programs, and development and implementation of a Skill Development program, ISDP. Loycene has attended twelve National Conferences and continues to network not only at the National Levels, but at the Regional and local as well.

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