Thomastine Sarchet, better known as Tommie, received her B.S. in Biology, and is currently working on her M.S. in Secondary Education for the Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing. Before joining the department, she worked as a C-Print Captionist at NTID, and as the Customer Service and Vocational Rehabilitation Services Manager at RIT's Campus Connections Bookstore. She joined the department in November 2006 as a Research Assistant.