Meet Lauren Gonzalez
Hello, my name is Lauren Gonzalez and I am a homegrown American Sign Language interpreter. What does that mean exactly? It basically means I have been directly linked with the Deaf and Hard of Hearing community since as far back as I can remember. What started out as a means of bonding, trust and communication between friends as a child has become my full time profession. It is something that has chosen me just as much as I have chosen it.
Since early childhood, sign language has been a cherished part of who I am. Throughout high school, I was an avid member of the ASL club and worked hard to create events that would connect Deaf Ed classrooms and ASL clubs of all ages. Upon leaving high school, I immediately enrolled in the University of North Texas’ ASL program. I found myself in a paid mentorship with the same school system I had just graduated from. The Denton Independent school system gave me my start, and it has only been up from there.
After 8 years of immersing myself in ASL classes and attending the Texas School for the Deaf Communication workshops for several years, I began my professional career in 2008 as an Educational Interpreter working with elementary students. Since then, I have been working directly with these communities professionally while concurrently receiving credentials in EIPA, VQAS, and HIPAA to name a few.
On top of being a proud advocate for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing community, I am also a mother to two daughters and a military spouse. This has taken me all over the world, and wherever we have lived, interpreting services have been vital to the communication between workers on those bases as well as for the families residing there. Pulling from my homegrown interpreting experience and my first-hand knowledge of the military community, I bring a unique perspective to the work I do.
I am excited each and every day to have personal connections in ever changing work environments and to see the relief on everyone’s faces when when they know my interpreting services are there for them. My mission for GoSign is to be a consistent, reliable source of communication between members of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing and the Hearing communities. Ultimately, I would like to establish a more personal interpreter to consumer experience through expanded diversity and opportunity in the interpreting market.
At GoSign Interpreting, our mission is to be a consistent, reliable source of communication between members of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing and the hearing communities. Contact us today for more information or if you would like to request services.