Jamie L. McCartney, Ph.D., Ed.S., CI & CT, NIC-M, has been a professional interpreter for more than 33 years and an interpreter educator for 30 years. She began her interpreting career after earning an Associate’s Degree in Interpreting/Transliterating from Columbus State Community College in 1993. She went on to earn Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees in Technical
Education in 1996 and 2002, respectively, followed by a Ph.D. in Secondary Education: Curriculum and Instruction in 2004 and an Ed.S. in Higher Education in 2017. Dr. McCartney’s doctoral research examined burnout among interpreters working in a variety of settings, including K–12, postsecondary, and community environments, and was grounded in Demand-Control Theory. Her professional interpreting experience includes postsecondary education, Video Remote Interpreting (VRI), DeafBlind interpreting, and medical interpreting.
She also spent nine years working in Video Relay Service (VRS), where she served as a center manager, director, and Video Interpreter (VI).
Since 2014, Dr. McCartney has served as the Program Coordinator for Kent State University’s ASL/English Interpreter Preparation Program in Kent, Ohio. Throughout her career, she has been committed to both the practice of interpreting and the education and development of future
interpreters.
Outside of her professional work, Dr. McCartney has been married for 30 years and is the mother of two adult children, ages 28 and 26. She also has a 19-year-old Deaf “son” in China, whom she considers part of her family.