sComm: An Update
Read my original article and open letter (available in ASL and English) before reading the below. Warning: This article includes graphic language. In March, I wrote [...]
Speech given at a high school in 2015
The following is a speech I gave at a public high school's world languages ceremony in 2015. Read the article I wrote about this [...]
Open letter to Jason Curry, sComm CEO
(To learn more about this open letter, go here.) March 30, 2015 Mr. Curry: Thank you for the video you released on Friday, March [...]
Doing More Harm than Good
(See the bottom of this page for a link to sComm's response to this and my follow-up response in both ASL and English. I have [...]
Remembering Chuck Baird (1947-2012)
I first met Chuck Baird when I was 10. My parents took me to see King of Hearts, a magnificent production by the National [...]
Getting to the Heart of the Matter
I first saw the term DEAF-HEART at an interpreting conference back in the early 2000s. There was a heated discussion in a workshop, and [...]
To Lead or Not to Lead? Sharing Power in the Field of Interpreting
This article originally appeared in the spring/summer 2014 issue of the RID VIEWS (Volume 31, Issue 2). View it as a PDF file: Suggs-Bowen_Article.pdf By Doug [...]
The fight of her life: Ronda Kopatich-Johnson
Ronda Kopatich-Johnson was my children's teacher aide last year in preschool, and my children went ga-ga over her. My children came home with new words [...]
Apathy? Not Me!
This article originally appeared at i711.com. Recently, I was at a chapter meeting for an organization. When the floor opened to nominations for president, [...]
Here and There
This article originally appeared at i711.com. I've got lots on my mind, so bear with me as I go into a million tangents. Why [...]