Crochet, Denise

Denise Crochet, CI, CT, is a visiting assistant professor and has been actively working in the interpreting field for twenty-five years. She has been trained in American Sign Language from sign-language institutes, mentorships with deaf individuals, including interpreting for a Fulbright Scholar. Crochet's work has included educational, medical, mental health, theatrical, minimal language skills, legal and video-relay interpreting. Her expertise in interpretation has led her to present workshops including ASLI Conference in Bristol, England, in 2012, at the Stella Maris School in Belize in 2015, at the Cambodian School for the Deaf in 2017, and across the United States. As interpreter coordinator for the Louisiana Jazz and Heritage Festival and Bayou Boogaloo music festival, she was a guest speaker at the National Americans with Disabilities Symposium (2018). In addition to the various schemas in which she has interpreted, Crochet formerly served as the executive director of the nonprofit Deaf Action Center, Northshore, as a mentor for the Louisiana State Department of Education, and mentor for Sorenson Video Relay Service. She provides sign language instruction for a dynamic range of clients whose interests are interpreting as a profession, as well as those who are losing their functional hearing and are seeking an alternative mode of communication. Her passion for both interpreting and mentoring led her to establish Semantikos LLC in July 2007.