Faculty and Staff Bio

Carly Flagg-Campbell

Carly J. Flagg-Campbell, Chair. Carly holds a Master of Arts in ASL-English Interpretation from Gallaudet University as well as CI (Certificate of Interpretation) and CT (Certificate of Transliteration) from the Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf. Additionally, Carly has a Bachelor of Arts in Early Childhood Education from Smith College and has completed training in child advocacy under the Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) program. Carly regularly presents on strategies for passing the Educational Interpreter Performance Assessment (EIPA), ASL to English Interpretation, Interpretation of Frozen Texts and Performance Art Interpreting and Ethical Decision Making for Interpreters. In addition, Carly has research interests in service learning in the classroom, interpreters and the use of swear words, the interpreter as a social-cultural liaison and the use of self-reflection in the training of interpreters. When not teaching and interpreting, Carly plays the hammered dulcimer, runs and enjoys time with her family.

Peter Cook

Peter S. Cook is an internationally reputed Deaf performing artist whose works incorporates American Sign Language, pantomime, storytelling, acting, and movement.

Peter has traveled extensively around the country and aboard with Flying Words Project to promote ASL Literature with Kenny Lerner since 1986. Peter has appeared in Live from Off Center’s “Words on Mouth” (PBS) and “United States of Poetry” (PBS) produced by Emmy winner Bob Holman. Peter teaches at Columbia College where he received the 1997 Excellence in Teaching award. In 1998, Peter set up a video production called PC Production and now based in Chicago.

Peter was featured nationally in festivals such as the Jonesboro National Storytelling Festival, Oklahoma City Winter Tales, Illinois Storytelling Festival, Indiana Hoosier Storytelling Festival, Eugene Oregon Multi-Cultural Festival, and The Deaf Way II and the Millennium Stage at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. Peter was invited to the White House to join the National Book Festival in 2003. Internationally, Peter has worked with Deaf storytellers/poets in Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Japan.

Peter is currently graduate student in the storytelling master program at East Tenn. State University and teaches full time in ASL-English Interpretation Department at Columbia College. He loves to tell stories to his son.

Diana Gorman

Diana Gorman Jamrozik is a full time tenured faculty member of the ASL-English Interpretation Department, and has been affiliated with the department since 1998. She has a Master's Degree in Interpretation from Gallaudet University and holds the Certificate of Interpretation (CI) and the Certificate of Transliteration (CT) from the Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf (RID). Diana was awarded a Columbia College Chicago Faculty Development Grant in 2004 for her research in fingerspelling recognition. Her current research interests include both fingerspelling recognition and translation processes. Diana teaches upper level courses in the department. In her spare time, Diana enjoys scrap booking and spending time with her family.

James W. Van Manen

Jim holds a Ph.D. in Administration and a Master of Arts in Linguistics of signed languages, both from Gallaudet University. He also holds the CI (Certificate of Interpretation) and CT (Certificate of Transliteration) from the Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf. Jim's Bachelor of Arts in TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) is from the University of Northern Iowa. Jim is a speaker who has presents on a variety of topics including Interpreting Humor, Deaf History, Interpreters Ethics, Educational Interpreting, Linguistics, and the ADA. Jim's research interests included Educational Interpreting, Deaf History, Interpreter History, and how non-native users of ASL learn to comprehend fingerspelling. Jim is a coda (he has deaf parents) and works as an interpreter when not teaching and is involved in several artistic pursuits having to do with hands and the depiction of iconic images from American Sign Language in paint, prints and wire sculptures.

Nina Campbell

Nina currently holds an A.S. Degree in Business Administrations from Rochester Institute of Technology. Nina has been involved in numerous organizations such as Ebony Club (Black Deaf Organization), BACC (Black Awareness Committee Coordination), and a sister of Sigma Sigma Sigma Sorority (Tri-Sigma). During her free time, Nina enjoys hanging out with family and friends.

Jennifer K. Briggs

Jennifer Briggs currently holds the Certificate of American Sign Language Teacher Association and also Certificate of Deaf Blind Specialist from Northern Illinois University. She received her B.A. Degree from Gallaudet University in 2002, majoring in American Sign Language. Right after Gallaudet, she entered graduate school at Columbia University, Teacher College in New York City and received her Master of Art in 2005, in Teaching in American Sign Language as a Foreign Language. The title of her thesis is “Non-Manual Grammatical Marking Among L2 Learners of American Sign Language”

Jennifer’s thesis paper at Columbia University focused on how second language learners (L2) acquire WHY questions in America Sign Language, and whether hearing L2 learners are able to acquire non-manual markers in WH-questions (what, who, where, and when). There are data that have been collected analyzing L1 learners signing WH-questions, but very limited research on L2 learners. After eight months of observing and student teaching in a second-year ASL class, she came to notice that students consistently struggled or lacked in using NMS. She investigated the use of NMS (Non-manual Signals) for WH- questions sign on WHY on among L2 learners of ASL. Some of the questions she researched included: Is there a stage of acquisition for NMS in WH-question forms among L1 and L2 learners? Is this stage of acquisition similar or different between the two groups? The L2 studies and her study show similar stages of acquisition. She analyzed and compared the L1 stages of Deaf children and L2 stages of hearing children in similar acquisition of learning of American Sign Language at early an age and during the teenage years.

Jennifer has worked in the field of interpreting for 8 years. Her experience includes Deaf/Blind, international sign, and relay hearing-deaf team interpreting in a variety of settings. She is currently working on obtaining her CDI and CLIP (Certified Legal Interpreter Provisional) from RID. Jennifer teaches ASL II , IV, Interpreting for Deaf Blind Consumers and Deaf Culture.

A frequent lecturer around the country, her topics cover various themes such as ASL, Second Language in American Sign Language and Deaf Blind. Also she has strong specialized in Designing ASL Curriculum. Her research interests include Second Language Acquisition of ASL and Non-Manual Signals in Tactile. She works closely with Kathy Zarate. While she isn’t teaching, Jennifer enjoys traveling in RV, scuba diving and kayaking.

She lives in West Loop, Chicago with her partner and their service dog, Sol, one deaf cat, Fire and two hearing cats, Blanco and Aqua.

Jamie Drake

Jamie Drake, NIC EIPA: Jamie has been a freelance Sign Language Interpreter in Chicago for 11 years. She graduated cum laude with a BA from Arizona State University in 1997. She teaches Introduction to Interpreting and Interpreting Technique, Fingerspelling, works with students on Independent Study Projects, and acts as a mentor to Practicum students. Jamie enjoyed learning Auslan (Australian Sign Language) during an extended stay in Australia with her husband Paul who is originally from Melbourne. Jamie is also an Independent Certified Instructor of Baby Signs and enjoys teaching parents to use sign language with their babies.

Jennifer Hart

Hi, my name is Jennifer Hart. I graduated from NIU with a B.S. in Deaf Education. I have been with Columbia College on and off since 1999. I currently teach ASL I. I will also be teaching Deaf Culture in the fall. On a personal note, I love animals, reading, writing, acting and photography. I am proud to be a part of Columbia College!

Angela Malcomson

Angela currently holds a Certificate of Transliteration from the Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf as well as credentials from Boys Town National Research Hospital in Educational Interpreting through the Educational Interpreters Performance Assessment. Angela received her BA Degree from Columbia College Chicago in 1996, majoring in American Sign Language - English Interpretation. She is currently pursing a Masters in Interpreting Pedagogy Degree from Northeastern University in Boston. Angela teachers Simultaneous Interpreting: Monologues and Transliteration/Educational Interpreting. Her research interests include language variation and program exit criteria and standards.

Scott Mosley

My name is Scott Mosley. I am a native of Wisconsin who attended Gallaudet University had my exposure to ASL there. I have lived in five different states in the past 17 years. Working with the ASL-English Interpretation Department has helped me gain experience in ASL Linguistics. I enjoy learning new things daily.

My Goal is to one day finish my degree majoring in either IT computers or the tourism industry.

My hobbies includes traveling, jets, seeing the world, photography, (amateur) and health/gym.

Patti Coco Phadke

BA in Mathematics and Secondary Education from Gallaudet College (now known as Gallaudet University) 1982

MED in Deaf Education from Western Maryland College (now known as McDaniel College) 1985

Taught high school math at Mississippi School for the Deaf 4 years

Taught high school math at Colorado School for the Deaf 1 year

Taught ASL classes at Harper College 1 year

Stay at home Mom 15 years

Teach ASL classes at Columbia College 5 years and counting

Enjoy spending time with family, camping trip, reading, and gardening

Christopher Smith

A Deaf Chicago native and Whitney Young High School graduate, where I began my dance training. I have been involved with the Sixth Sense Performers, The Joseph Holmes School of Dance, Joel Hall of the Performing Arts, Dance Space, Gallaudet University, National Theatre of the Deaf, Sunshine Too Theater Company, The National and International Wild Zappers (an all Deaf African-American male dance company), Deaf West Theater, and Seattle's Intiman Theater. The highlight of my dance career was performing at the Dayton Institute of the Arts in Dayton, Ohio.

I have also been an instructor and assistant director for the Rochester Institute of Technology Dance Company, The San Antonio Summer Deaf Dance Camp, The Seattle Children's Theater's

Deaf Youth Drama Program, as well as dance instructor for the senior division the Community Service Center for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, also in Seattle.

Through an Artist in Residence grant, I have choreographed West Side Story for a deaf and hearing cast in Jacksonville, Illinois, and received the Contribution to the Dance World Award from the Chicago Park District.

My most recent accomplishments was teaching dance to students grade 8-12 at the International Creative Arts Camp in Oregon, Illinois, as well as choreographing selections from the Broadway musical, Dreamgirls, for the White Ball Affair Banquet hosted by Black Deaf Advocate, along with a sign and dance, Ease On Down the Road from The Wiz to prepare inner city deaf and hearing kids for the 78th Bud Billiken Parade.

Erickson Young

Erickson Young, Adjunct Faculty

Bachelor of Arts, Majoring in Government and Spanish, Gallaudet University, Washington, D.C.

Foreign Study Program in Spanish, University of Costa Rica, San Jose, Costa Rica

Erickson recently returned to the United States from Kenya, East Africa after serving over two years as a U.S. Peace Corps Volunteer. He served primarily as a deaf educator to Kenyan deaf students at the primary level. His other responsibility was developing academic syllabus and providing advise on Kenyan Sign Language (KSL) and Deaf Culture information to teachers of deaf children. He plans to pursue his Master of Arts degree in Intercultural Service, Leadership and Management at the School for International Training (SIT) in Brattleboro, Vermont. His main focus in graduate school will be in International Development for Disabilities. He is currently teaching American Sign Language (ASL) I class at Columbia College in Chicago, Illinois. When he is not teaching, he enjoys reading books and love traveling to foreign countries.