Connecticut Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf

The CRID Board of Directors

     The CRID Board of Directors is comprised of a President, Vice President, Recording Secretary, Corresponding Secretary, Treasurer, and three members at large.  Currently, the responsibilities of one of the members-at-large position is being shared by two members.  For information on the duties and responsibilities of each position, please refer to Article IV, Section 4(b) of CRID's Constitution and Bylaws.

President:  Anna-Marie Cartagena, CI and CT

Anna-Marie started interpreting as many students do - in church.  After getting her Bachelor's degree in Liberal Arts at Southern Connecticut State University, she decided to take courses at NCCC in order to pursue a career in interpreting.  Anna-Marie has been in the interpreting field since 1987.  She has been an educational interpreter since that time and has worked with students in pre-school all the way up to the graduate level.  She also works in a variety of settings for FSW.  Anna-Marie is married and has two cats.  She loves to bake as most participants in CRID's meetings and workshops can attest.  She also loves Hawaii.  Anna-Marie is eager to work with the new board and all of CRID's members in order to make our organization bigger and better.  Anna-Marie can be reached at President@CRIDonline.com.

Vice President:  vacant

The duties of the Vice President are to assist the President and to preside over meetings if the President is absent.  The Vice President also has other duties assigned to them by the executive board.

Recording Secretary:  vacant

The duties of the Recording Secretary are to keep minutes of all meetings.  The Recording Secretary might also have other duties assigned to them by the executive board.

The recording secretary can be reached at RecordingSecretary@CRIDonline.com.

Corresponding Secretary:  Elizabeth Laflamme-Baker

Elizabeth is from the northeastern part of Connecticut.  She attended Northeastern University in Boston, MA from March 2005 to May 2008 where she did her undergraduate work in American Sign Language and Sociology.  While she was at Northeastern University in Boston, she did her fieldwork with the Deaf Blind Contact Center and Deaf Inc. in Alston, MA and she continues to be very involved in that agency today.  In September 2008, she transferred her ASL credits to Northwestern Connecticut Community College and studied in the Interpreter Preparation Program under Leslie Warren. She did her internship at The Learning Center for the Deaf in Framingham, MA and recently graduated from the program on May 4, 2009.  Elizabeth is currently a graduate student at Post University in the Human Services program and is hoping to finish this December.  For her first graduate internship, she worked under the Massachusetts State Association for the Deaf.  At the present time, she is working at the American School for the Deaf as an Assistant Dean in the PACES Program during the weekends.  She passed her NIC written exam in April of 2007 and is also making plans to work with a mentor to prepare for the NIC performance exam. 

Elizabeth can be reached at CorrespondingSecretary@CRIDonline.com

Treasurer:  vacant

The duties of the Treasurer are to collect monies of the organization and make disbursements as requested by the Board.  The treasurer will file state registration and federal IRS forms, with professional help as needed, to maintain 501 (c) 3 status. The treasurer also presents financial reports at the general membership and board meetings and compiles an annual report to be certified by the Board.

The treasurer can be reached at Treasurer@CRIDonline.com.

Member-At-Large:  Anna Maria Rinaldi, RSC and CDI-P

Anna Maria is an alumnus of ASD, Gallaudet University, and California State University at Northridge (CSUN).  She was one of the first staff counselors at Camp Isola Bella in 1964.  Anna Maria was a member of the RID Board from 1980 to 1982.  In the early 1970's, she began teaching in a variety of interpreter preparation programs in Georgia, Oregon, Washington, South Carolina, and North Carolina.  Currently, She is a part-time instructor in both ASL and Deaf Studies at  Northwestern Connecticut Community College (NCCC) in Winsted.  Anna Maria holds a RSC/CDI-P from RID.  She has a passion for community theater and has been with Sound Off, Connecticut's Community Theater by and for the Deaf, since 2001.  She is now a two-term Member-at-Large with CRID as of June, 2005.  Anna Maria can be reached at MemberAtLarge_AR@CRIDonliine.com.

Member-At-Large:   Dorothy Cennamo-Walllis

Dorothy started to learn sign language when she was hired to work in a residential facility where there was one deaf resident.  No one on staff knew sign language, so she bought a book and started teaching herself.  She had no idea she was coding English until she switched jobs and met a coworker who was deaf.  The coworker signed with her at work, became friends, and introduced Dorothy to the Deaf community.  That is when she recognized ASL as a language and learned about Deaf culture.  People she met in the Deaf Community were the ones who urged her to become an interpreter.  Six years later she had her first job interpreting.  She loved it and has never looked back.  Dorothy has been interpreting for 23 years in a variety of settings, primarily post-secondary and medical.  For the first 17 years she was strictly a freelance interpreter.  Since 2003 she has continued to freelance, but also works for FSW. 

 MemberAtLarge_EO@CRIDonline.com.

Member-At-Large:  Roberta Goldberg, CI, CT, and NAD III

Roberta graduated from NCCC in 2000 with an AA in Interpreting and Western Connecticut State University in 2001 with a BA in Communications/Human Relations. She has been interpreting since 1993 and has worked in educational, medical, legal, corporate and community settings. She has worked for FSW since 1999 and is currently  the Senior Staff Interpreter. Several years ago, Roberta was on the CRID Board as a Member at Large. She served 4 years as chairperson for LeGIT (now BLeGIT) within RID and am currently serving a second term as Region 1 Member at Large within BLeGIT. She has chaired the Welcoming/Hospitality/Access committee for the 2005, 2007 and 2009 RID National Conferences, and chaired the Access committee at the 2006 Region 1 Conference in Providence, providing awareness training for hotel staff at each conference.