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Monthly Membership

Your membership includes: Access to webinars taught by diverse Deaf People of Color and diverse Interpreters. The webinars will meet the RID Power, Privilege, and Oppression (PPO) CEUs. And MORE: Private tutoring with Dr. Garay to study/prepare for certification (at a discounted cost) Community Discussion Center Access to a wide range of diversity resources Pay monthly at $19.95 per month ($240 for the year) Once you join monthly, you will be charged every month. You can cancel at any time.

$19.95 USD every month

Yearly Membership

Join Yearly Join yearly and pay $199 for 12 months (save $40 - 2 months free!) Your membership includes: Access to webinars taught by diverse Deaf People of Color and diverse Interpreters. The webinars will meet the RID Power, Privilege, and Oppression (PPO) CEUs. And MORE: Private tutoring with Dr. Garay to study/prepare for certification (at a discounted cost) Community Discussion Center Access to a wide range of diversity resources Access to PPO Studies courses on a wide variety of topics

$199.00 USD every year

K-12 Educational Interpreters Membership

This discount is for K-12 Educational Interpreters only. Includes one year membership at Diversity Academy. *You must sign up using your work email. *

$29.95 USD every year

Student Membership

This discount is offered to students of ITP programs who intend to become interpreters.

$19.95 USD every year

Earn Your PPO CEUs, anytime, anywhere

Join Diversity Academy as a member (you can pay monthly or yearly) and you'll have access to a variety of webinars to earn your PPO CEU's.

What Does a Membership Include?

A membership at Diversity Academy includes access to webinars on the topics of Power, Privilege, and Oppression. Every webinar is available to be viewed anytime, anywhere and each webinar earns 0.2 PPO CEUs.. This means you can earn your PPO CEUs from the comfort of home, in your pajamas--at your own pace. You don't even have to comb your hair!

Each webinar has a Pre-Assessment, Post-Assessment, additional resources to read/view, and an evaluation to complete to earn your CEUs. Once you complete those steps for a webinar, your CEUs are processed during the following month.

Your membership also includes access to a variety of resources that cover diversity topics as it relates to the interpreting profession--via articles, websites, videos, and research.

Diversity Academy also offers courses throughout the year for a nominal additional cost.

Diverse Speakers and Topics

Your membership includes online webinars featuring diverse Deaf and diverse Interpreters. Each webinar gives you 0.2 PPO CEUs. You can view these webinars anytime, anywhere. Each speaker presents LIVE, and then the replays are available to view on your own time. Members are required to take a pre- and post-assessment, presenter evaluation, additional reading, and participate in the online discussion forum. to earn 0.2 PPO CEUs.

Your membership includes monthly webinars featuring diverse Deaf and Interpreters sharing their wisdom on various topics, especially related to Power, Privilege, and Oppression. The webinars can be viewed anytime, anywhere. CEUs are processed in the following month after the webinar is completed.

CEUs are processed by Purple Communications.

Dr. Suzette Garay

Topic: Not Your Typical LGBTQ Model: The Deaf LGBTQ + POC Experiences within LGBTQ Spaces

Shana Gibbs

Topic: Strategies for Providing Corrective Feedback with Interpreters of Color

Dr. Melanie McKay-Cody

Topic: How Do the Missing Pieces of Training Affect PPO with Native/Indigenous Deaf/Hard of Hearing People?

Joseph LJ Williams

Topic: Forget the ITP and Interpret for ME!

Lisa Weems

Topic: Understanding the PPO Dynamics for Interpreters of Color--So You Wanna Talk About Differences?

Christopher Robinson

Topic: Respecting & Valuing Interpreters of Color

Crescenciano Garcia-Campbell Jr.

Topic: Understanding Unearned Privileges & Power Dynamics that Impact the Working Relationships with Interpreters of Color

Dr. Alesia Allen

Topic: How Systems Lead to the Provision of Power, Privilege, and Oppression in the Interpreting Profession

Renee Phillips

Topic: Implicit Bias and You

Romduol Ngov

Topic: Authentic Representation of BIPOC Deaf Interpreters

Featured Courses:

(Each course is $40 for members and $65 for non-members and earns from 0.8 to 1 PPO CEUs. Courses are available at different times throughout the year.)

Cracking the Shell of Whiteness (Students/K-12 Educational Interpreters)

PPO Studies: White Fragility (Working Interpreters Only)

PPO Studies: How to be Anti-Racist (Working Interpreters Only)

Mentoring/Coaching (available through JustConsulting)

Diversity and Inclusion Training

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