Congratulations to newly elected Board of
Directors for the World Association of Sign Language
Interpreters (WASLI) and for the World Federation of the Deaf (WFD)! Best
wishes for the upcoming term. Thanks too to the outgoing board members for
serving from 2011-2015!
Debra
Russell, President- Jose Ednilson, Vice President
- Susan Emerson, Treasurer
- Isabelle Heyrick,
Secretary
- Natasha Maliko, Africa
- Etsuko Unemoto, Asia
- Angela Murray, Austroceania
- Desanka Zizic, Balkans
- Christopher Stone, Europe
- Liz Mendoza, North America
- Isabel Rey, Latin America
- Anna Komorova and Igor
Bondarenko, Transcaucasia
- Nigel Howard, Deaf Interpreting
Advisor
A
special thanks to Nigel Howard for serving as the WASLI North America
representative from 2011-2015. It was a pleasure to work with you along with
our colleagues from the Registry of Interpreters for the
Deaf (RID – USA) and Asociación de Intépretes de Lengua
de Señas del Distrito Federal (AILSDF – Mexico). Likewise, best
wishes to the newly elected WASLI North America representative, Liz Mendoza.
We’re looking forward to getting to know you better and to work with you over
the coming term.
World Federation of the Deaf (WFD)Board of Directors (2015-2019):
- President: Colin Allen
- Vice President: Dr Joseph
Murray
- Mr Florjan Rojba
- Ms Ana Regina Souza Campello
- Mr Kasper Bergmann
- Ms Kaisa Alanne
- Ms Jigjid Dulamsuren
- Ms Hanne Berge Kvitvaer
- Mr Nikolay Chaushyan
- Dr Terry Riley OBE
WFD and WASLI Conferences in France in 2019
The 2019 WFD World Congress will be held in France.
WFD OM France won out as the location for the conference by a slight margin
over Hong Kong. As is the tradition for WFD & WASLI to host their
respective conferences in the same location one week apart, the WASLI 2019
Conference will also be hosted in France.
