Salt Lake Community College

Rank/Title: Instructor
Campus: Redwood
Office: AD 143
Phone: 801-957-1430 VP (hearing callers use relay 1-866-327-8877)
Email: duane.kinner@slcc.edu

Duane Kinner earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Information Systems in 1999 from Gallaudet University. He is currently pursuing ASLTA certification. He taught as an ASL lab tutor and adjunct ASL instructor at SLCC before becoming a full-time instructor in 2002. Duane is a trainer for the Utah Interpreter Program. He is also a language mentor for interpreters at Utah Schools for the Deaf and Blind Duane has the rare distinction of being raised in a Deaf family and having two Deaf children.

Connie Spanton-Jex

Rank/Title: Assistant Professor
Campus: Redwood
Office: AD 147
Phone: 801-957-4642
Email: connie.spanton-jex@slcc.edu

Education: BS Utah State University, 1988 MS Western Maryland College, 2002
Interpreter Certification: RID CI/CT

Connie has been the ASL/Interpreting department coordinator since August 2003. She joined SLCC�s full-time faculty in August 2002. She has been nationally certified interpreter since 1991 through the Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf and holds both Certifications of Interpreting (CI) and Transliterating (CT). She currently serves as the Local Testing Administrator/Coordinator for RID�s certification testing Supersite located in Salt Lake City in a collaborative effort with UIP and SLCC.

Prior to coming to Salt Lake Community College, Connie worked for 10+ years in Washington D.C. as a certified interpreter, working in a variety of situations and settings. Her favorite setting/situation was theatrical interpreting and she interpreted over 50+ plays while in Washington D.C. metro area.

Connie possesses a Master of Science degree from Western Maryland College (2002) in Bi-lingual Bi-Cultural Deaf Education, is a member of Utah RID, Conference of Interpreter Trainers (CIT), ASLTA and is the mother of 4 children, including a Deaf teenager.

Emily Beech

Rank/Title: Instructor /Lab Instructor
Campus: Redwood
Office: AD 147
Phone:
Email: emily.beech@slcc.edu

Emily earned an Associate of Arts degree in ASL/Interpreting (SLCC), and additionally,
possesses a B.S. degree in Education with minor in Deaf Education and a Master's degree in Educational Technology from Utah State University. Her teaching experience includes four
year classroom teaching in the Jordan School District, 1999 to 2003, and as an ITP lab tutor & instructor, 2004 to present, at Salt Lake Community College. Emily interprets at SLCC and in the community.

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Michelle Draper

Rank/Title: Fast Track Program Director
Campus: Larry H. Miller Campus
Office:
Phone:
Email: michelle.draper@slcc.edu

Education: BS Utah State University, 2005
Interpreter Certification: Utah Intermediate

Michelle is a graduate of Salt Lake Community College's Interpreter Training Program and additionally possesses a degree in Math Education from Utah State University. In 2005, Michelle spent the summer teaching at a school for deaf children in Ghana, Africa. She enjoys teaching and works as a video relay interpreter.

Suzanne Holland

Rank/Title: Adjunct Instructor
Campus: Redwood
Office: by appointment
Email: sholla15@mymail.slcc.edu

Suzanne has been teaching ASL for many years. She joined the Salt Lake Community College faculty in 2006 after working for many years as an ASL instructor in Colorado Springs.

Eric Lynn

Rank/Title: ASL Lab Coordinator / Adjunct Instructor
Campus: Redwood/Sandy
Office: TB 418
Phone: 957-4865 TTY/VP (hearing callers use relay 1-866-327-8877)
Email: eric.lynn@slcc.edu

Eric Lynn earned Associate of Arts degree in 1988 and is currently working towards a B.A. degree from the University of Utah with an emphasis in Teaching American Sign Language. Eric possesses an American Sign Language Teachers Association (ASLTA) Certification.

He has 11 years of classroom teaching experience at Community Colleges located in California, Kansas, and Utah. The past eight years have been at Salt Lake Community College as the ASL Lab Coordinator and an ASL Adjunct Instructor. He was honored as SLCC�s Club Advisor of the Year 2004-2005, for advising the ASL Club. Eric is involved with the Utah Interpreter Program (UIP) and serves as the Vice-Chair for UIP on the Utah Certification Board. In addition to all of this he is an ASL Language Mentor for the Utah School for the Deaf and Blind. Eric is married to a Deaf wife and has 2 children.

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Alan Wilding

Rank/Title: Adjunct Instructor
Campus: Redwood
Office: AD 143
Phone: 801-957-1430 VP (hearing callers use relay 1-866-327-8877)
Email: alan.wilding@slcc.edu

Education: BA Gallaudet University, 2000 & MA Western Oregon University, 2002

DeeLayne Kobel

Rank/Title: Full Time Instructor, Fast Track
Campus: Miller/Redwood
Office:
Phone:
Email: DeeLayne.Kobel@slcc.edu

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Holly Nelson

Rank/Title: Full Time Instructor, Fast Track
Campus: Miller/Redwood
Office: MPDC-105
Phone:
Email: holly.nelson@slcc.edu

Sean Benson

Rank/Title: Adjunct Instructor
Campus: Redwood
Office: by appointment
Phone:
Email: sean.benson@slcc.edu

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Julio Diaz

Rank/Title: Adjunct Instructor
Campus: Redwood
Office: by appointment
Phone:
Email: julio.diaz@slcc.edu

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Bernice Cooper

Rank/Title: Adjunct Instructor
Campus: Redwood
Office: by appointment
Phone:
Email: bernice.cooper@slcc.edu