About the Presenters

Doug Bowen-Bailey is an interpreter, mentor, educator, and resource developer who lives in Duluth, MN.  He has partnered with the CATIE Center at St. Catherine University to create numerous CDs, DVDS, and online modules related to interpreting in healthcare and educational interpreting.   Along with Patty Gordon, he created the Teaching Interpreters in Public Schools (TIPS) process to support educational interpreters in raising the level of service in the classroom and their performance on the EIPA, so he is experienced with issues related to both healthcare and education.   He currently serves as the webmaster for healthcareinterpreting.org and the Conference of Interpreter Trainers.  Doug can be contacted at dbb@digiterp.com.

Patty Gordon has a B.A. in Linguistics from Metropolitan State University and a Master of Liberal Studies from the University of Minnesota as well as certificates from the University of Colorado’s Teaching ASL and Master Mentor programs. She is a community interpreter in private practice for over 24 years, an adjunct instructor in the ASL Interpreting Department at St. Catherine University in St. Paul, Minnesota and has developed an taught workshops focused on ASL linguistics, interpreting process strategies, mentoring and performing arts interpreting, among others. As a consultant, she provides interpreter evaluation, program development, ASL media translation, and curriculum development. As a mentor and mentor trainer she has worked and offered support to programs in Minnesota, Alabama, Louisiana, Iowa, South Dakota, Kansas and New Brunswick, Canada.  Patty can be contacted at pattygordon@mac.com.