3rd annual Scholarly Intersections Symposium: History of Mexican Sign Language, & South Central is Home in room LH-151

ASLD and the Chicano & Latin studies department are honored to host Dr. Abagail Rosas presenting on South Central is Home: Race & the Power of Community Investment in L.A., and Mr. Edgar Sanabria Ramos presenting on the History of Mexican Sign Language. Please follow the link below to RVSP  by April 8, 2019.

Mr. Sanabria Ramos 

He is deaf by birth and a member of a Deaf family (4th generation), he is an educator, working at CAM (Multiple Service Center) 39 as a promoter of reading and writing for Deaf children in the CAM.

He worked in the Directorate of Special Education (SEP) as a Deaf / Deaf coordinator of Mexican Sign Language (LSM), in the CAM. He also teaches, counsels and consults for teachers of different educational modalities related to the education of deaf and hearing children in bicultural and bilingual areas. In this institution he participated in different activities: Elaboration of DIELSME I and II; Translation and interpretation into Mexican Sign Language of the Mexican National Anthem, Translation of different narrations (Spanish-LSM) for the SEP / DEE, for the realization of the series of stories “Let’s read better day by day” in LSM. As well as at the private schools of the Deaf (Pedagogical Institute for Language Problems, I.A.P., Clotet Center, Tessera Institute, Rosendo Olleta Institute). Curriculum development in a school for the deaf in Mexico, based on observations of the deaf children at different levels ranging from pre-school to university leve. He also taught at universities such as Gallaudet University in Washington, D.C. and other schools.

He was part of the team in charge of the creation of the new standard for Certification of Mexican Sign Language Interpreters. He has certification as an evaluator and as an interpreter of this language.

He has collaborated in different research works with linguists of several higher education institutions: UAM, UAEMor, ENAH, and with the SEP, providing advice regarding the grammatical analysis of the LSM. He has also worked as an Interpreter of LSM, American Sign Language (ASL), and International Sign Language (International Sign Language) in different spaces, including the O.N.U., SEP, WFD, FEMESOR, WEF, etc. He currently chairs the police station of the FEMESOR (Mexican Federation of the Deaf) and was coordinator of the LSM of the same federation.

Dr. Rosas 

Assistant Professor of Chicano and Latino Studies at California State University, Long Beach. Dr. Rosas received her Ph.D. from the Department of American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California.
Born and raised in South Central Los Angeles, the activism of resilient Latina/o and African American neighbors and friends have been formative to her scholarly pursuits. Dr. Rosas book manuscript will showcase that African American and Latina/o interactions are charged yet rife with opportunities to craft something anew, as they constantly negotiate their relationships through evolving economic, political, and social policy that perpetually demonize and prosecute poor families color.