Participants’ Comments

On the keynote address:

Laurene Simms, “A Braided Dream of Color: Yours, Mine, and Ours”

Laurene’s presentation hit home! Awesome and very TRUE facts!

Exciting motivational speaker!

. . . an excellent job. I’m very appreciative of your desire for People of Color to seek the opportunity.

On Conference workshops:

Joseph Hill, “Language Attitudes Toward Signing
Types in the American Deaf Community”

I had a lot to benefit from this workshop because it showed me the many different ways to sign.

Great knowledge—I appreciate knowing what kind of research is going on. :)

This discussion is very interesting. Audience has give their opinions/thoughts related to this topic. It helps me to be aware and be comfortable with any style of languages and sign languages as well.

Steven Chough, “Stand Up and Be Seen!”

He’s so wonderful as a presenter! I have really enjoyed participating in situation’s activities.

Great audience participation! Excellent!

Really inspired me a lot and taught me cultural sensitivity. Thank you!

Interesting presentation. Good interactive activity between presenter and participants.

Awesome.

Francisca Rangel, “The Inner Lives of Deaf Latinos Migrant Farmworkers”

EXCELLENT! Absolutely engaging presenter. Loved hearing and learning about this unique experience! Keep on!

Thanks for sharing personal history—enjoyed it! Very intersted and needed work.

Truly wonderful! I could listen to her the entire weekend.

Judy C. Stout, “How Networking Strategy Benefits You”

Wonderful! Beneficial to me. Great audience participation. Learned some things!

Very well done—this workshop specifically will be related to the real world. This presentation should help anyone’s life no matter what their goals or dreams may be.

Great job, Judy!

Carla Garcia, “Are You a Victim of White Privilege, Hearing Privilege, or Both?”

Fantastic real-life examples help, and nice for people to understand “other side” of race.

Excellent! A lot of great feedbak from group. Enjoyed the group session and split into groups. Interesting hearing different perspectives!

It is worthy my time. It does apply to my purpose of life. I will use compassion to help world with love and peace.

Mary Henry Lightfoot, “Video Relay Service: Interpreting
Tools for Effective Dialogue with Culturally Sensitive Content”

Very good! Good group discussions. I learned a lot.

The use of video clips made this workshop a cut more interesting. Speaker is knowledgeable about this subject. Great job!

I really like the “video clips” of Deaf people’s experiences.

SooHyun Tak, “Are Nice People Like Us Racially Biased?”

Great presebter with a wonderful style! Interesting to see our biases come out in the workshop. Would like to see the full-day workshop and how it could be adapted for teacher bias with deaf students.

Good presenter. Excellent information for self-analysis of bias.

Outstanding job. Knowledge, yes. Presentation skills, yes!

On the Panel/Round Table Discussion:

This conference really really awesome and meet new different culture people involve and great workshop discuss, etc.—Let more participate different culture workshop—Really great conference ever I see!

Great way to get everyone’s input, insight, suggestions on the conference.

This panel discussion was very much needed. To be able to share our experiences to be able to develop tools, to be able feel united. Thank you to the ad-hoc committee [the Coalition] for making me MORE proud to be a DEAF Woman of COLOR. Thank you.

Great. Everything in workshop. :)

Overall comments:

THANK YOU!!

Hope that we continue having the conference every 2 years.

Thank you to Mr. Moore for your role to make the best-ever conference. It is a CHAMP!