Melanie Page

Our parents are deaf. So actually mom made me go to the local school when I was in grade school and interpret for the deaf students.

What is your name? I wish to remain anonymous. What did you want to be when you grew up? Wife and mother. Does your childhood career goal now affect your interpreting in any way? Do they overlap, “speak” to each other, or are they completely separate? Yes. I have to avoid the helper role as…

For me, the connection lies in my comfort with unpredictability.

I run a homeopathic support group in ASL and interpreters are a part of it

“…she suggested I become an interpreter, and I didn’t even know what that was.”

“I actually don’t have any Interpreter friends or interpreting colleagues.”

“… I wanted to be a clown-dancer-lawyer.”