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    • ASL Classes
    • COVID-19
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SCAD Conference 2021 will be entirely VIRTUAL hosted on Zoom!
We are committed to providing the safest conference experience while being accessible to all.
​We look forward to reconnecting with you! 

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Virtual Conference Schedule

Friday, August 6, 2021

2:00pm – 3:00pm    Login and Get Settled
3:00pm – 4:00pm    Business Meeting
4:00pm – 4:30pm    Break
4:30pm – 5:30pm    Workshop - Lisa Rose
5:30pm – 6:30pm    Dinner Break
6:30pm – 7:00pm    Announcements
7:00pm – 8:00pm    Entertainment - Fred Beam
 Saturday, August 7, 2021

  9:00am – 10:00am    Login and Get Settled
10:00am – 12:00am    Business Meeting Part Two
12:00pm – 1:00pm      Lunch Break
  1:00pm – 2:00pm      Workshop - Roxie Dummett 
  2:00pm – 3:00pm      Elections
  3:00pm
– 3:30pm      Virtual “Door Prizes”
  3:30pm – 4:00pm      
Announcements

  4:00pm – 5:00pm      Dinner Break
  5:00pm – 6:00pm      Entertainment - Wink Smith

Conference Program Book

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Meet our Presenters

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Lisa M Rose
NAD Board Region III Representative
Presenting: "We + Life = ?"
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​Fun facts about me:
  • I love the Baltimore Ravens
  • I enjoy reading YR, Politics and Harlan Coben books
  • I have an avid interest in sampling different ground coffee from different places
  • I enjoy meeting interesting and passionate people from all walks of life!
By day, I teach virtual ASL at secondary level with Pasco County School District. By night, I teach Deaf Culture/ASL at a local college and I also volunteer my time actively involved in several organizations including NAD that I’m passionate about. I love Politics and majored in Government at Gallaudet University, where I also earned my teaching credential and Master of Arts in Deaf Education degree.

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Roxie Dummett
ASL lecturer and Assistant Professor
​at George Mason University
Presenting: "Beyond Black ASL: What You Need to Know"

Fun facts about me: 
  • I love spending time with my girls and my granddaughter 
  • I enjoy refurbishing antique furniture 
  • I enjoy editing video lessons for my ASL courses
  • I practice Yoga, mediation, and fitness/weight training workouts
  • I am the daughter of a Guyana immigrant and I am a first generation Guyanese-American
Roxie is currently an ASL lecturer/assistant professor at George Mason University and used to be an adjunct ASL instructor at Northern Virginia Community College for more than 10 years. Roxie earned her BA and MA degrees from Gallaudet University. She is also a Black American Sign Language researcher, presenter, and narrator in “The Hidden Treasure of Black ASL". Work like this has motivated the NY TIMES to share an article that states BASL is now recognized all over the world.



Meet our Entertainers

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Fred Beam
Outreach coordinator for Sunshine 2.0
Fred Beam, an Alumni of NTID as well as acclaimed  educator/workshop presenter, dancer, actor, poet,  director and choreographer; Beam has worked with many theater companies including Kennedy Center, Arena Stage,  Bethesda Academy of Performing Arts and National Theater of the Deaf, just to name a few. He also was involved in numerous dance companies, the Gallaudet Dance Company, the National Deaf Dance Theatre, the DuPont Dance Company, the Penn Vision Dance Company and the Bethesda Academy of Performing Arts. He has performed around the globe. He was also executive director of an award winning, In­visible Hands, Inc., which promotes deaf awareness through performing arts and was one of the founding members of The Wild Zappers, an all deaf male dance company ,which toured nationally and internationally. He also established Theater Arts Leadership Training for Deaf People of Color at Gallaudet University. He is also an advocate for many organization. he was a former President of National Black Deaf Advocates . He also has taught math and theater at Model Secondary school for the Deaf/Gallaudet University before moving to Rochester, NY.

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Wink Smith
Performer, Educator, Advocate
Wink is a CODA with two Deaf parents from the Midwest (he tried but failed to get more deaf parents). His father grew up at a deaf school while his mother attended a mainstream school. Wink has taken bits of life experiences and weaved them together into entertaining stories for all. Wink's stories highlight various topics within the deaf, coda, interpreter, ASL, and hearing community. Wink has 16 years of professional experience as a certified interpreter across several states and is a presenter of numerous workshops that focus on various topics most known of which is depiction use in ASL. He has also served on several committees and boards in numerous interpreting organizations and Deaf advocacy groups. However, he gets the most pleasure when performing which he has had the pleasure of doing for the last 11 years sharing the stage with other phenomenal ASL performers. In that time he has performed numerous improv shows, developed his comedy show, his dramatic show (which centers around his mother’s traumatic brain injury) and a children’s show. When Wink is not performing or presenting one of his numerous workshops he enjoys sitting at the computer working on his PhD in linguistics from Gallaudet University all the while his cat Toby sits on his lap for hours on end. 
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SCAD Conference 2021 Sponsors

A huge thank you to our sponsors. Connecting with you helps us elevate our community and support our members! 
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