Maine Heads to NAD 2026: MeAD Sends Second-Largest State Delegation in the Country
MeAD is sending 5 people to the 58th NAD Biennial Conference in San Francisco — making Maine the second-largest state delegation nationwide, behind only Pennsylvania.
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MeAD 2025: What We’re Working On
From emergency alert reform to interpreter workforce development, MeAD has been busy in 2025. Here’s a look at what we’re working on and how you can get involved.
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MeAD and New England Partners Launch Legal Interpreter Training Initiative
Deaf people in Maine’s legal system deserve qualified interpreters. MeAD is working to make that a reality through a new legal interpreter training initiative.
Transforming Interpreting in Maine: MeAD’s Role in the TIME Project
Maine has a serious shortage of ASL interpreters — and MeAD is helping lead the statewide effort to fix it. Here’s what the TIME project is, what it found, and what comes next.
MeAD Receives the Spirit of NAD Award at the 2024 NAD Biennial Conference
At the 57th NAD Biennial Conference in Chicago, the National Association of the Deaf presented MeAD with its prestigious Spirit of NAD Award — recognition of our community’s strength and resilience in the wake of the Lewiston tragedy.
Maine’s Lewiston Survivors Take Their Story to New York: MeAD at the RIT/NTID Emergency Preparedness Summit
In June 2024, Matt Webster, MJ Grant, Liz Seal, and Kevin Bohlin traveled to Rochester to share what the Deaf community experienced during the Lewiston shooting — and what emergency systems everywhere must change.
“It Couldn’t Happen Here”: Maine’s Deaf Community Takes Lewiston Lessons to the National Stage at ADARA 2024
At the 2024 ADARA Conference in Atlanta, Sitara Sheikh, Terry Morrell, Tristen Evah Hellewell, and Kristine Gile presented on the mental health and systems failures the Deaf community experienced in the aftermath of the Lewiston mass shooting.
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When Emergency Systems Fail the Deaf Community: MeAD’s Lewiston Response
When Lewiston became the site of Maine’s deadliest mass shooting, MeAD mobilized immediately — coordinating 32 interpreters in 48 hours to serve our community in crisis.