Jim Lipsky

Jim Lipsky, Certified Deaf Interpreter, took early retirement from the ASL Program at Northeastern University after about 28 years. Also, he had been an ASL Coordinator and Senior Academic Specialist in ASL/Deaf Studies/Interpreter Program.

 

He is currently a nationally Certified Deaf Interpreter (CDI) through the Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf (RID). He has been a freelance Deaf interpreter for about 26 years and a Deafblind community interpreter for 30 years in Massachusetts and New England areas. His various settings are medical, workshop/training, Massachusetts’s Press Conferences, VRI, conference, emergency, and legal. He earned a Master’s degree in Deaf Studies from Boston University in 1999.

 

He received a Masters level Certification through American Sign Language Teachers Association (ASLTA).

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He continues to serve as a Massachusetts State Screened Interpreter Evaluator for the Massachusetts Commission for the Deaf and Hard of the Hearing (MCDHH).

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Jim enjoys gardening and spending time in Maine.