Beth Lucey
Instructor
Elizabeth M. Lucey is a Deaf Massachusetts native from all-hearing family. Her educational background included a self-contained class, mainstreaming programs and Clarke School for the Deaf. She graduated from Gallaudet University twice: in 1997 with triple Bachelors degrees in ASL, Deaf Studies and Psychology and in 2002 with a Master degree in Interpretation both with honors. She became the fourth Deaf person to complete the Interpretation program requirements and the first Deaf recipient ever to win Ron Coffey Excellence Award in Interpretation, the department's highest award.
Shortly afterwards, she attended a year long intensive mentorship program with the Gallaudet Interpreting Service and obtained RID certified status first with a CDI-Provisional certificate in July of 2000 and then CDI certificate in January of 2003. She has received numerous other honors from Maryland Association of the Deaf, Potomac Chapter of Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf (PCRID), Metropolitan Washington Association of the DeafBlind, just to name a few. She had served two years on the PCRID board as a Member-At-Large (first ever Deaf person to do so), Council on Interpreting Facilitator, PCRID Board Liaison to the Council, Annual Conference as Committee as Volunteer Coordinator and Conference Service Chair, just to name a few.
She is one of a few Deaf people to serve RID as a Local Test Administrator and Adjudicator. In the present time, she is actively working as the Region II co-representatives for Massachusetts chapter of Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf and a board member for DeafBlind Contact Center. She currently works as freelance CDI, workshop presenter/trainer and ASL Lecturer with Northeastern University in Boston.