Selected Presentations
Pictured is Raychelle in the middle of a group of about 10ish people, after one of her presentations at Austin Community College's Deaf Culture course. Raychelle has presented at ACC each semester for the past several years.
The picture below is of Raychelle after her presentation at Washington School for the Deaf, chatting with approximately 10 people in the audience. Her email address is visible on the screen, "[email protected]".
Below are two photos of Raychelle by each school's mascot: Left - Oregon School for the Deaf, Home of The Panthers, a purple panther is painted in the middle. Right - Washington School for the Deaf - Home of the Terriers, with a green outline of a terrier. She is signing the school sign for their terriers (ears flapping). The presentations were done the second weekend of October 2018.
Pictured below is Raychelle discussing the framing and meaning of "privilege" in ASL. Summer Crider Loeffler is tactile interpreting; and Shira Grabelsky is monitoring the presentation slide sequence (Mickie Brunton is not pictured, to the side).
Harris, R., Loeffler, S., Brunton, M. & Grabelsky, S. (2016, July 21). White privilege @ National Deaf People of Color conference. National Deaf People of Color conference, Austin, Texas.
Raychelle was invited to endnote the biannual national ASLTA conference in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The video abstract is below on left, and a photo of me presenting at the conference is on right.
Harris, R. (2015, July 27). Endnote speaker. National biannual ASL Teachers Association (ASLTA) Conference, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
NTID's Department of ASL and Interpreting Education invited Raychelle to give two presentations - one to the NTID community about ASL in Academic Settings, and another one with the ASL & Interpreting Education department about ASL assessment.
Harris, R. (2016, April 21). ASL in academic settings: Language features. Rochester Institute of Technology, RIT ASL and Deaf Studies Community Center (RADSCC), Rochester, NY.
Harris, R. (2016, April 22). Assessing ASL Skills: PRVAB-izing Your Assessment Tools. Rochester Institute of Technology, ASL and Interpreting Education, Rochester, NY.
Harris, R. (2016, April 22). Assessing ASL Skills: PRVAB-izing Your Assessment Tools. Rochester Institute of Technology, ASL and Interpreting Education, Rochester, NY.
Collaborating with several faculty in the ASL & Deaf Studies department, Raychelle helped co-coordinate the popular ASL in Academics Lecture Series in 2011.
Harris, R. L. (2011, February). Academic discourse in English and ASL. ASL in Academics Lecture Series, Gallaudet University, Washington, DC. February 18, 2011.
Shortly after Raychelle defended her dissertation in mid-August, she was deeply honored to be invited to become a part of the prestigious VL2 Presentation Series.
Harris, R. L. (2010, October). A case study of extended discourse in an ASL/English preschool classroom. Visual Language, Visual Learning Lecture Series, Washington, DC. October 13, 2010. [Click the link above to go to the video-recorded presentation]