Sandra Reid

Sandra Reid attended Gallaudet University, earning a Bachelor of Arts degree in Mathematics and then continued onto to receive a Master of Education degree in Deaf Education from Western Maryland College (now McDaniel College) in Westminster, Maryland.

Sandra has spent her entire professional career (33 years) as a teacher with the Edmonton Public School Board. She taught Math and ASL at Alberta School for the Deaf (ASD). She is the first person in Canada to teach ASL as a second language to hearing high school students, starting at Jasper Place High School and Queen Elizabeth High School in Edmonton, Alberta. She also taught ASL and Deaf Studies courses at MacEwan University and Lakeland College for 32 years. Since 2015 she has been teaching ASL courses at the University of Alberta, with the Modern Languages and Cultural Studies department. She has been involved in countless projects and events at ASD and in the Deaf Community, serving as a committee chair, event organizer, leader, fundraiser, counselor and professional advisor. She had been involved with the Canadian Cultural Society of the Deaf (CCSD) in numerous capacities, with American Sign Language Instructors of Canada Evaluation (ASLICE) and American Sign Language Instructors of Canada (ASLIC) after she was one of the first two people to receive the ASLIC certificate in 1992. She is currently president of the Alberta Cultural Society of the Deaf in Edmonton (since 2008) and is very active in the Deaf Community. She was awarded CCSD's Deaf Person of the Year in 2014. She loves to spend time with her two sons, travelling and to do research her family ancestry.