Interpreters

Damita Boyd

Damita Boyd is a certified interpreter who gained her start as a student in the Sign Language Interpreting Program at GPC. She has worked as an interpreter in the Washington, DC area, Rochester, NY and within metro-Atlanta. From 2004-2009, Damita served as an educational interpreter in metro-Atlanta, and enjoyed working in classrooms from kindergarten through post-secondary.

Damita has been actively involved in the Atlanta chapter of the National Alliance of Black Interpreters and is a member of the Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf, Georgia Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf, the Atlanta Black Deaf Advocates, the Georgia Association of the Deaf, Peachtree Rainbow Deaf Society, and the Conference of Interpreter Trainers. Damita holds a master’s degree in Interpreting Pedagogy from Northeastern University and is currently the Coordinator of the nationally accredited Sign Language Interpreting Program at Georgia Perimeter College.

Richard Bramburg

Richard Brumberg, B.A., CI/CT, NIC, has been working in the field of interpreting since 1992. For 14 years, Richard specialized in full-time K-12 public schools settings. In New York, Richard worked as a staff interpreter for a Deaf-owned interpreting agency and as an interpreter in the school systems. In North Carolina, he served on the board of Coastal RID as Educational Liaison, working to create ties between educational interpreters in his region. While in Georgia, he worked in conjunction with the Georgia Department of Education’s GDEAF program to help working educational interpreters obtain qualification or certification. He has presented online twice for Supporting Deaf People. To date, Richard has presented in Maryland, North Carolina, Nevada, Florida, Texas, Alabama, Georgia, London and Madrid.

Currently, Richard lives in Atlanta, GA where he works as a full-time freelance interpreter. He is thrilled and honored to be a part of this project.