President

Corey Blount

Corey Blount is a licensed (MS QA Level III) interpreter living in the Oxford area. He has been a licensed interpreter for 20+ years, after graduating from the Interpreter Training Program at Hinds Community College in 2004. He previously served as MSRID President and served on various positions on the MSRID board throughout his career. Corey is an ASL instructor at the University of Mississippi. He is also the proprietor of Blount Interpreting Agency, LLC and interprets in higher education, platform, community, medical, and VRI settings. Corey earned his undergraduate degree in 2012 in linguistics and master’s degree in 2015 in applied linguistics. He is currently working on a PhD in Applied Linguistics at the University of Mississippi. His research interests are in sociolinguistic variation of ASL, Second Language Acquisition (SLA), Second Language Instruction, and Interpreting.

Vice President (Vacant)

VicePresident@msrid.org

Vacant

"The Vice President shall, in the absence of the President, perform the duties of the President, and shall perform such duties as may be assigned by the Board" (MSRID Bylaws ARTICLE IV Section B).

The Vice President shall: 

• in the absence of the President, perform all duties of the President;
• assist in the training of in-coming board members and committees.

Secretary

Secretary@msrid.org

Catherine Maenzo

Cat grew up in New England in a large Deaf family with a parent that was one of the first RSC's (Deaf interpreter). She has been RID certified since 1996 and has worked in a variety of settings including K-12, University/collegiate, medical, legal, performance, VRS and currently VRI. As someone with mixed indigenous heritage she has also volunteered with IDC (Intertribal Deaf Council) and Native peoples for years. She has lived in the Southern states for over 25 years and now permanently calls Northern Mississippi home with her husband and 2 dogs.

Treasurer

Theresa Delgado

Theresa is from Vicksburg, MS and she is excited to be your MSRID treasurer for this term! She grew up in a small town in Louisiana with her parents, brother and sister. Her older sister by eighteen months, Kelly, is deaf and attended LSD. Due to her mom's firm belief in full access to communication in the home for all family members, she does not ever remember not signing. Tragically, her sister unexpectedly passed away at a young age of 22. Sadly, being in a small, isolated area they were not rooted in the Deaf community and the language she had always taken for granted, American Sign Language, lay dormant and unused for 20+ years. With the encouragement of her husband and daughter she sold her accounting business and enrolled in the Hinds Community College ITT program in August 2019 to fulfill a lifelong dream to become an interpreter and reconnect with that part of herself that she had lost for over two decades. Theresa graduated from HCC in May 2021. She worked at MSD as a teacher's assistant for a short time and has been interpreting at Hinds Community College since Feb 2022. She is passionate about this profession and the community she serves. “I consider it a blessed honor EVERY TIME I get the opportunity to facilitate communication.”

Member at Large

Mal1@msrid.org

Alyna Ginn

Aly is a dedicated ASL interpreter with over 15 years of signing experience and 5 years of professional interpreting. She specializes in educational interpreting and is expanding her expertise into medical interpreting and family gatherings. Aly's primary passion is her family; her children and husband followed closely by her love for ASL. Outside of work, she enjoys spending time on the water with her family, riding jet skis and inner tubes.

Member at Large

Mal2@msrid.org

Julie Seawright

Julie has been an ASL Interpreter since 2005 working in various K-12, medical, and university settings. She graduated from Hinds Community College with an associate’s degree in Interpreting in 2005. She obtained a B.S. in Business Administration from Ole Miss in 2023. She started learning ASL at nine years old in 1993. She has a deaf grandmother, who has since passed, she has a deaf aunt that uses home signs and listening and spoken language to communicate She also has a son who is unilaterally deaf. He was born after she started her interpreting career. She serves as the Assistant Director of MS Hands and Voices, a parent driven, non-profit organization dedicated to providing unbiased support to families with children who are d/Deaf or hard of hearing. Currently, she is the Coordinator of Communication Access at the University of Mississippi. When not at work, she can be found napping, reading, and spending time with her husband, two sons, two dogs and one cat.