Rachel Cahill


Contact Info:

(voice/text/facetime)

Education

University at Albany 

BA Public Communications-2004

Certifications

RID  NIC 

About Rachel:

Rachel was born and raised in the Capital District of NY.  She was introduced to the Deaf community through her church that had a large Deaf ministry.  She started taking ASL classes at five years of age. She began signing and socializing with the church members and starting to interpret for her Deaf peers in High School.   

She worked full time as an education interpreter for BOCES while she received her BA in Public Communications at the University at Albany.  Upon graduating she began full time freelance work. In 2009 she became RID Certified(NIC). Most of Rachel’s career she has worked in Higher Ed with undergraduate as well as graduate students at the MA and PhD level. She works in a variety of settings including medical, business, and general community interpreting.  She recently began her legal training and plans to take the SC:L when offered again by RID. Rachel works in the Greater Capital District, downstate NY, as well as Southern VT and western MA.

Rachel lives in Rensselaer County with her husband and two busy kids.


Options Mission


Options standards:

  1. Clear and fair practices for all individuals who are a party to our services.
  2. Vetted, competent and accountable interpreters are working each and every assignment.
  3. Working within the frame of upholding the linguistic and human rights of the individuals we serve.
  4. Fostering and nurturing the development of interpreters by ways of education and mentorship.

Options priorities:

  1. Raise the bar on interpreting standards and expectations of customer service.
  2. Shift the paradigm of procurement of interpreter services.
  3. Being available and accessible to the communities we serve.

All Options: An Interpreting Cooperative practitioners;

  • Are RID certified or RID certification ready (i.e. passed the RID written examination and are committed to taking the RID performance evaluation)
  • Engages in regular professional dialogue and has an ethical support community.
  • Supports the Deaf community by ways of giving back such as pro bono work, community engagement and involvement, volunteerism, and activism.
  • Maintains and exceeds national expectations of professional development and growth.
  • Upholds the linguistic rights of the Deaf community by practicing within a rights based frame of ethical decision making.
  • Advocates for the direct procurement of optimal and culturally competent interpreting services.

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