Patty Sapere is an RID Certified Interpreter, B.S. in Business Administration, and a practicing interpreter for 20 years. She spent the past 10 years as the Coordinator of Professional Development and In-Service Training in the Department of Interpreting Services at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf (NTID) in Rochester, NY, and was Special Assistant to the Dean of NTID for two of those years. As co-author on the grant "Access to Technical Education through Sign Language Interpreting", Patty currently is Research Associate on the project, housed in the NTID Department of Research.