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Global Pride: Diversity, Equity, And Inclusion In Interpreting, Deb Russell, Colin Allen
Global Pride: Diversity, Equity, And Inclusion In Interpreting, Deb Russell, Colin Allen
International Journal of Interpreter Education
This open-forum article highlights an interview conducted with Colin Allen, a Visiting Lecturer from the National Technical Institute for the Deaf at Rochester Institute of Technology and Abigail Gorman, an activist and graduate student at Birkbeck College, University of London, in the UK. In this interview, they highlight their experiences while coordinating International Sign interpreters for Global Pride, a virtual international global event that took place in June 2020. This was the first time that Global Pride has provided communication access to the international deaf LGBTIQA+ Community via sign interpreting services. (For the purposes of this article, LGBTQIA+ refers to …