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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. Sorenson interpreters have their CEUs processed by Sorenson.
Dr. Suzette Garay
Topic: Understanding Diversity, Privilege, and Power from a Diverse Deaf Perspective
Socorro Garcia
Topic: Understanding Boundaries of Interpreters as Members of Diverse Communities
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?
Warren Snipe
Topic: Understanding the Interpreting Challenges with Black Deaf Talent in the Entertainment Industries
Dr. Tina Childress
Topic: Where Are You FROM?
Christopher Robinson
Topic: Respecting & Valuing Interpreters of Color
Amber Galloway
Topic: How Does PPO Impact Music interpreting: The Raw Truth
Crescenciano Garcia-Campbell Jr.
Dr. Alesia Allen
Topic: How Systems Lead to the Provision of Power, Privilege, and Oppression in the Interpreting Profession


Featured Courses:
(Each course is $40 and earns from 0.8 to 1 PPO CEUs. Courses are available at different times throughout the year.)
Cracking the Shell of Whiteness
PPO Studies: White Fragility
PPO Studies: How to be Anti-Racist
Mentoring/Coaching
Diversity and Inclusion Training
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