Duke Moolenaar

President

Julie Tait

Vice-President

Julie currently works for the Department of Education in Queensland, Australia.  Julie started teaching Deaf students in 1986 after studying Deaf Education.  She has worked with Deaf and Hard of Hearing individuals and their families from age of diagnosis to adults.  Julie has worked in all educational settings from early intervention, pre-school, primary, high, and special schools.  Julie also worked for many years in a post-secondary setting supporting Deaf and HH students accessing Vocational Education.  Julie attained her interpreter qualification in 1993 and continues to work as a community interpreter.   Julie also has a particular interest in working with children who are deafblind and is currently involved in a project for the department in providing support to these unique students and their teachers.

Zane Hema

Secretary

Zane Hema originates from New Zealand, but started his career in London initially supporting Deaf students in Education before going on to train as a sign language interpreter 1996/7 at the City Lit in London.     He then went on to complete a Post Graduate Diploma in BSL/English Interpreting in 2000 at the University of Central Lancashire.

Since 2007 Zane has worked part-time as an Interpreter Teacher, teaching selected modules on both vocational and academic programmes.   His also has experience teaching on overseas programmes (US, Finland, Thailand, Panama) and in countries that do not yet have any formal training programmes (Gambia, Nepal, Singapore, Malaysia, Fiji).  He has given many presentations at a range of conferences and other events

He is the former ASLI National Chair (2001-2005), former efsli Vice President (2002-2010) and former WASLI Secretary (2005-2011).  Zane trained as a Mentor through the ASLI Mentoring Programme and has been an actively mentoring since 2007.   He is now an WASLI Ambassador remains a member of the efsli Committee of Experts and in 2013 joined the ASLIA (Australian Sign Language Interpreter Association) Interpreter Trainer’s Network.

In 2007 ASLI awarded him a FASLI (Fellow of the Association of Sign Language Interpreters) for his outstanding contribution to the Associaiton.  He was awarded Life Membership by efsli in 2010 and Honorary Life Membership by WASLI in 2011.  In 2012 he was awarded Communication Professional of the Year and the prestigious Joseph Maitland award, by Signature (the national body that promotes communication between Deaf and hearing people)

In 2012 Zane moved to live in Australia and in 2016 earned NAATI certification as a Certified Interpreter.   He has been the ASLIAQ Secretary since 2016, continues to work as an interpreter and interpreter trainer and mentor.

Megan Bytheway

Treasurer

Megan pursued interpreting after nearly 20 years working in environmental science and corporate sustainability, with many of her recent years spent in corporate reporting, project planning and system improvement projects. She is thankful for this experience when faced with interpreting mumbo jumbo and corporate speak. Megan also contributes to volunteer-based committees (ASLIA Qld and her kids’ P&C committees) navigating the worlds of good governance, community consultation, compliance reporting (and more buzz words) – considering what is most important to the people that do the work.

Peta McNaughton

General Committee Member

Although Peta began her Auslan journey in 2006, it wasn’t until 2019 that she completed the Diploma of Interpreting through Access Training and Education, going on to gain her Certified Provisional Interpreter credentials in early 2020. She has worked in the disability sector, including time with Deaf communities in Uganda and Kenya, since 2001, and as an Educational Interpreter in both the private and public sectors since 2016. Since gaining her certification, Peta also works in community settings and is the current Chairperson for ASLIA’s Interpreting in Education Settings sub-committee.

Danielle Ferndale

General Committee Member

Daniela Walker

Board Director & General Committee Member

Helen Boddice

General Committee Member

My name is Helen Boddice.  I currently work as an educational interpreter and freelance interpret in between school, university and family.  I have been in education now for about nine years and hope to one day become a teacher.  After completing the Diploma of Interpreting at Deaf Services Queensland I gained my paraprofessional accreditation in late 2018.  This started a massive learning curve as I traversed my way through the vast differences between education and community interpreting.  I am looking forward to supporting ALSIA with their vision and learning new skills along the way.

General Committee Member