American Sign Language Interpreter
Anna Mindess, MA, CSC, SC:L

Areas of expertise: legal, business, medical, educational, video relay and theatrical interpreting.

• RID Certified American Sign Language Interpreter since 1986

• Legally certified court interpreter since 2000 – California ID# 400007

• Video Relay Interpreter since 2004

• Stage Hands of the Bay Area Associate (Theatrical Interpreting) since 2007

 

Education and Training

M.A., Special Major: Language and Culture with a Focus on Sign Language, San Francisco State University, 1988

B.A., Theatre, University of California, Los Angeles, 1974

Interpreting in the American Judicial System; ASL and English, California State University, Northridge, 1991

Summer Institute for Intercultural Communication, Portland, 1989

Read about Anna's work as an ASL legal interpreter in the San Francisco Chronicle: Woman translates for the deaf Edward Guthmann, Chronicle Staff Writer Monday, March 23, 2009 Let's say a deaf person gets selected for jury duty. Maybe they want to dispute a traffic ticket. Maybe they're on trial. Or summoned as a witness. That's where Anna Mindess, a courtroom interpreter for the deaf, comes in. Since 1991, Mindess, 55, has interpreted in hundreds of courtroom situations ... Read article >> Photo by Paul Chinn / The Chronicle

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