sarah comerford (they/ them)

NIC, CoreCHI, OCHI, HQAS IV, EIPA

Born and raised in the Bay Area of California, sarah comerford’s 14-year interpreting career began when they attended a K-12-focused two-year interpreter training program based in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi and subsequently obtained a bachelor's degree in Cognitive Linguistics from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. They continued their education with a Master's in Interpreting Studies from Western Oregon University where they studied ASL interpreters’ professional communities of practice as situated within contemporary systems of power-oppression and the ethics of class consciousness. Following a special election in Fall 2021, sarah served as President of Oregon's affiliate chapter of the Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf (ORID) until Spring 2024. Today, sarah operates their small freelance practice out of the Salem-Keizer area, specializing in educational, medical, and community settings.