Episode 32 - Advocacy, Leadership, and Amplifying Voices Across Communities (with CM Hall)
Description
CM manages several career positions in the fields of interpreting grant administration, teaching, and political campaign training. She is Co-Director for the Protactile Language Interpreting National Education Program and teaches DeafBlind Culture, Communication & Co-Navigating, as well as LGBTQ sociology courses at Western Oregon University. Among her professional accomplishments, CM co-created DiscoverInterpreting.com to encourage those considering a career in interpreting and she successfully ran the national campaign to convince the Unicode Consortium to add the ASL “I Love You” handshape to text emoji options on smart devices.
CM is also the incoming Executive Director for Emerge Oregon, a nonprofit political organization dedicated to inspiring, recruiting, and training Democratic women to run for office. She is serving in her second term on the Newport, Oregon City Council and is host and producer of Her Own Wings, a podcast featuring Oregon women leaders in government.
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