Though successful inwards her laid out semester inwards Dental Lab Technology, Amanda Martin says, “I had a nagging incertitude that it was the correct career path for me over the long haul.” Knowing a reboot was inwards order, the American Sign Language (ASL) plan piqued her interest. “The laid out shape reviewed together with covered rights together with laws that personally affected the struggles of the deaf together with difficult of hearing population. I was learning the linguistic communication together with beingness introduced to a civilization I never knew existed. I knew I had to produce this for the residuum of my life.”
Her side past times side measuring was bold. Finishing upward her ASL marker at Reynolds, she applied equally a hearing somebody to Gallaudet University inwards Washington, D.C. “One of the questions that nagged at me was, would I live on accepted? Not but academically, but socially? The other major enquiry was money.”
Fortunately, Amanda received an ASIST scholarship abide by from the Richmond Chapter of Executive Women International. Members of EWI were lately on manus to involve heed Amanda part her floor at Reynolds’ 18th Annual Scholarship Luncheon.
Grateful – together with graduating from Gallaudet this Dec – Amanda is a freelance interpreter through the Virginia Department for the Deaf together with Hard of Hearing. She’s working to constitute her ain interpreting society together with website.
“I’m at this amazing academy because of my scholarship, I’ve had the wonderful sense of attention Reynolds, where outstanding INTERPRETERS cash inwards one's chips started!”