Diversity Spotlight Archive
Year-round, we spotlight people in our community, whether they are students, faculty, staff or alumni. Learn more about the people who make RIT/NTID an amazing place to be.
Kristi Love Cooper
Interpreter and Coordinator, Randleman Program
RIT/NTID
My biggest cultural influence is my family. They have shaped who I am and how I walk in this world, especially as a Black woman.
Interpreter and Coordinator, Randleman Program
RIT/NTID
My biggest cultural influence is my family. They have shaped who I am and how I walk in this world, especially as a Black woman.
Kristi Love Cooper is an Interpreter and Randleman Program Coordinator.
Amberlee Jones
Interpreter
NTID Department of Access Services
Love our contributions, but in the same vein, show that same love towards our people and our community.
Interpreter
NTID Department of Access Services
Love our contributions, but in the same vein, show that same love towards our people and our community.
Amberlee is an Interpreter with the Department of Access Services.
Christopher Coles ‘04
Interpreter
We have been a part of every beautiful and extraordinary moment. They call it “Black excellence.”
Interpreter
We have been a part of every beautiful and extraordinary moment. They call it “Black excellence.”
Christopher is a 2004 RIT/NTID graduate from the ASLIE Department, and is now a certified interpreter, NIC: Master.
Ellen Johnson
Senior Staff Accountant
NTID Budget and Finance
Immerse yourself in someone’s everyday life. Ask lots of questions IF you are close to them. Otherwise, start the conversation with: I am curious how does ‘this or that’ situation affect your life?
Senior Staff Accountant
NTID Budget and Finance
Immerse yourself in someone’s everyday life. Ask lots of questions IF you are close to them. Otherwise, start the conversation with: I am curious how does ‘this or that’ situation affect your life?
Ellen works in the NTID Budget and Finance Department as a Senior Staff Account. She manages the NTID Regional STEM Center (NRSC) project.
Thomas Warfield
Senior Lecturer
NTID Department for Performing Arts
People of Color must navigate systems, institutions and individual racism on a daily basis and white privilege is the glue that prevents the dismantling of racism and discrimination.
Senior Lecturer
NTID Department for Performing Arts
People of Color must navigate systems, institutions and individual racism on a daily basis and white privilege is the glue that prevents the dismantling of racism and discrimination.
Thomas Warfield is the RIT Director of Dance and NTID Department of Performing Arts.
Phtundra Thompson
Interpreter
NTID Department of Access Services
Developing a rapport with POCs in general will open doors for you. You will be surprised!
Interpreter
NTID Department of Access Services
Developing a rapport with POCs in general will open doors for you. You will be surprised!
Phtundra Thompson is an Interpreter for the Department of Access Services.
Roxann Richards
Senior Staff Assistant
NTID Enrollment Management
Start a dialogue with your peers and call them out if necessary
Senior Staff Assistant
NTID Enrollment Management
Start a dialogue with your peers and call them out if necessary
Roxann Richards is a Senior Staff Assistant for NTID Enrollment Management.
Marc Holland
Associate Professor
NTID Performing Arts Department
My culture is resilient! My culture is power!
Associate Professor
NTID Performing Arts Department
My culture is resilient! My culture is power!
Marc Holland is an Associate Professor in the Performing Arts Department at NTID.
Hope Williams
Director, Professional Development Program
RIT/NTID
Develop empathy for people of other cultures, and commit to being anti-racist.
Director, Professional Development Program
RIT/NTID
Develop empathy for people of other cultures, and commit to being anti-racist.
Hope Williams is the Manager of NTID Professional Development Program.
Catherine Clark
Audiology Faculty
NTID Communication Studies and Services
Great role models taught me to have high expectations of myself and others. I truly believe it takes a ‘village.’
Audiology Faculty
NTID Communication Studies and Services
Great role models taught me to have high expectations of myself and others. I truly believe it takes a ‘village.’
Catherine Clark is an Associate Professor, Faculty, and Audiologist.
Nnaemeka Nnamani
Visiting Assistant Professor
NTID Department of Science and Mathematics
Our traditional marriage ceremonies...acts as a unifying event as distant relatives and relatives living far and near all take great pleasure in attending the ceremonies.
Visiting Assistant Professor
NTID Department of Science and Mathematics
Our traditional marriage ceremonies...acts as a unifying event as distant relatives and relatives living far and near all take great pleasure in attending the ceremonies.
Nnaemeka Nnamani is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Science and Mathematics.
Judy Buckley
Friend of RIT/NTID
My biggest cultural influences have come from my family, my Cherokee Nation, as well as several surrounding indigenous people & nations.
Friend of RIT/NTID
My biggest cultural influences have come from my family, my Cherokee Nation, as well as several surrounding indigenous people & nations.
Judy’s affiliation and support for RIT/NTID is with and for her husband, Gerry Buckley, President of NTID, Vice President and Dean of RIT.