Alice Harrigan

Massachusetts

Workshop Topic: Assessment/Feedback/Mentorship

Workshop Title:
• Reflecting On Our Practice: Collective Dialogue Among Interpreters

Alice Harrigan, MA, CI and CT, has been working as an interpreter in Massachusetts for nineteen years. She has a private practice in addition to her work as a staff interpreter for the Massachusetts Rehabilitation Commission. After teaching part time at Northeastern University and years of consulting with novices and seasoned interpreters, as well as opening up the work to Deaf and non-signing colleagues, she decided to formalize her fascination with talking about the work. The result was a Masters degree in Critical and Creative Thinking from the University of Massachusetts, Boston. Some of the research on Dialogue presented in this workshop is taken from her synthesis project. A section of "Learning to See in the Dark: Discovering the Parameters of Practice Based Dialogue" can be read in Proceedings of the 16th National Convention, RID, 1999.