Grad Students of Acclerated Mentoring Program "AMP"

Kimberly K. & Constanza

My name is Constanza Wiens. I did my ITP at Los Angeles Pierce Community college and graduated in May 2005. For job reasons in 2008, my family and I had to move to Puerto Rico. Praise God! I have been able to work as interpreter here because Puerto Rico uses ASL. For the last two years, I have been working on my own because the concept of team work has not been established yet and workshops are few.

Searching for improvement, support, and guidance by May 2010, I decided to go back to California to take some mentoring classes and workshops from Juti Seshie at LOVE2ASL.COM. When I called Juti and explained her my situation here in Puerto Rico, she was willing to work with me and she organized all the classes I wanted to take and workshops one after the other one for me to be available to take as much as I could in a period of two months.

What a marathon it was. She worked so hard to help and support me as much as I needed and I will be forever thankful. What I learned in every class and workshop was and is of great value. No even once I felt that I have lost my time and money. In her classes, I discovered who I am as a professional Interpreter. My strength and weakness of my interpreting skills were exposed, and with it, I learned different techniques that with practices are helping me to improve in every single area and to reach the next level. I learned to control my fears, how to analyze ethical problems, I learned the difference requirements between the EIPA test and NIC test, and the most important thing I learn to have confidence.

Juti is a great mentor. She takes time to work one on one and creates a very safety environment to work. If you want to improve your skills, learn more about the interpreting field, and want to become a better professional take the time and sign up to her classes

Hello,

My name is Kwame and I was able to attend the AMP course, an all day class once a week for 6-weeks, for the duration of the stay of Juti Seshie here in Ghana, West Africa. We are without formal training and we rely to learn from our Deaf family members. We go mainly to interpret in the education system. There is little compensation but it is tremendously fulfilling to work among our Deaf brothers and sisters.

Dr. Juti's program was amazing to me because, I knew nothing about Deaf culture, professional boundaries, respect for the consumer, classifiers, facial expressions, processing time and many more items of importance that I was unaware of, thanks to the generosity and dedication of Mrs. Seshie I now understand more about the Deaf culture and can better understand how to provide communication between everyone! We are looking forward to your speedy return and we miss you greatly. God Bless and keep you in our prayers.

Our future plans are to build a small center and teach workshops and courses in Ghana, West Africa. We have purchased land about 30 miles from the Capital city of ACCRA. The block wall is up and has a gate.

The next step is to drill for a water well. Nothing is cheap when it comes to construction... We will keep you posted.

Our dream is to have Interpreters and Interpreter students come to Ghana and meet and learn from Deaf  Ghanaians