Imagine Worcester #72 Judy Freedman Fask

Virginia Swain is the host of Imagine Worcester and the World, your source for local and global interviews with peacemakers around the world. Judy Freedman Fask , Director, Deaf Studies, College of the Holy Cross. Judy was born in Newton, Massachusetts but she always lived in Worcester, Massachusetts. She attended the University of Massachusetts in Amherst for her undergraduate degree and went to graduate school at Smith College and to Springfield College for a second master’s degree. Judy is married with five children, several of whom have health complications. Growing up in a large family, Judy is still close to all of her siblings, and her elderly parents live with her. Judy stresses the importance of working together to solve a problem, and enjoying life the way it is and not the way one wishes it was. Judy accepted the Excellence in Higher Education Award recently for the program she directs--the only one of its kind in the nation as it mandates the active involvement of all students with members of the Worcester-area deaf community. The Massachusetts Commission for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing (MCDHH) provided their staff interpreter, Lynda Carmel, to be the interpreter for the show. http://academics.holycross.edu/asl-deafstudies