Email: norma@whitecoatcaptioning.com

EDUCATION, TRAINING, and CERTIFICATIONS

• Champlain College, A.S. Court Reporting
• National Captioning Institute, Intensive Training in Television Captioning
• National Court Reporters Association, Registered Professional Reporter (240 wpm certification holder), Certified Realtime Reporter, Certified CART Provider, Certified Broadcast Captioner

RELEVANT EXPERIENCE

• 1993-1994—BBC Television, London, England, News and Current Affairs Live Television Captioner
• 1995-2006—Court Reporters Associates, Burlington, VT, Freelance Court Reporter and CART Provider
• 2007-present—Independent CART Provider and Captioner

Since January 2007, I have captioned all the live-captioned events at the University of Vermont. I have also done extensive classroom CART, serving students individually in the classroom. In addition, I have provided CART for business meetings, conferences, seminars and theater in a wide range of topics and variety of settings. Using state-of-the-art internet streaming technology, I am currently providing remote CART to a second medical school, as well as a veterinary school.

Listed below is a representative sampling of the wide range of events and courses I have covered.

EVENTS ON THE LARGE SCREEN:

• Commencement
• Orientation
• New President Inauguration
  (St. Michael’s College)
• Convocation
• Meetings, Forums & Debates
• Seminars and Scientific Conferences
• Graphic Design Seminar
• Engineering and Mathematics Conference
• Theater and Comedy Events
• Visiting Authors, Lecturers, Speakers, Performers, including:
  • Dan Savage
  • Donna Brazile
  • President Barack Obama
  • Elie Wiesel
  • Harry Belafonte
  • Jon Stewart (Comedy)
  • Ben Stein (Comedy)
  • Soledad O’Brien
  • Nicholas Kristof
  • Michael Pollan
  • Jonathan Marks
  • Sue Johanson (Sex Education)
  • I Heart Female Orgasm (Sex Education)
  • Stan Pearson (Diversity Training)
  • Bo Burnham (Comedy)
  • Cornel West
  • Gail Collins
  • Sweet Honey In The Rock (Musical)
  • Maura J. Cullen (Diversity Training)
  • Paul Roberts
  • Kristen Schaal (Comedy)
  • Tracy Kidder
  • Jean Kilbourne
  • Martin Luther King III
  • Billie Jean King
  • Seth Meyers
  • Wynton Marsalis

CLASSROOM CART:

• 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th Year Medical School
• Medical Student Pathology
• Fellowship Conferences (1 year)
• Numerous undergraduate and graduate classes, including:
• Introductory, and Organic Chemistry
• Molecular and Cell Biology
• Psychology I
• Abnormal Psychology
• The Bible as Literature
• Film Noir and Related Literature
• Medical Ethics Seminar
• Sports Nutrition
• Canadian Postmodern Literature
• The Canterbury Tales
• Graduate Cell Biology Seminars
  (2 years)
• Theory of Literature
• Harlem Renaissance