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Lin Marksbury

Executive Director

Lin Marksbury, Executive DirectorLin, our Executive Director, has been interpreting since the dawn of the ages. He is well known and well liked by the Deaf community around the state of New Mexico. He is a nationally certified interpreter and founded RGC Access in 2010. He built the RGC Access team and continues to support the local Deaf communities by providing the best communication access possible for every Deaf consumer.

lmarksbury@rgc-access.org


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Megan Goldberg

Associate Director

Megan attended UNM and graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Linguistics with a concentration in Sign Language Studies. She is a nationally certified interpreter and has been working in New Mexico since 2006. Megan is extremely knowledgeable about the local Deaf community and is able to provide consultation about communication access and Americans With Disabilities (ADA) guidelines for organizations that are needing to arrange interpreting services for Deaf, hard of hearing, or Deaf-blind consumers. Along with community work, Megan specializes in legal interpreting.

mgoldberg@rgc-access.org


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Rebecca De Santis

Professional Development Coordinator/Staff Interpreter

Rebecca graduated from the National Technical Institute for the Deaf (NTID) in 2010 with a bachelor’s degree in Sign Language Interpreting. She relocated to Albuquerque after graduation and has been happy to call New Mexico her home ever since. Rebecca is a nationally certified community interpreter specializing in mental health interpreting. She received her Qualified Mental Health Interpreter certificate in 2015. Rebecca is one of our lead interpreters and the coordinator for the Bridge to Work program, which provides safe job placement and professional development for recent graduates going into the field of interpreting.

rdesantis@rgc-access.org


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Santana Chavez

Lead Interpreter

Santana is native to the state, originally from the small town of Dora, New Mexico. Santana graduated from the University of New Mexico in 2016 with a bachelors degree in Sign Language Interpreting. After graduation, Santana joined the interpreting team at Rochester Institute of Technology in New York and worked in their interpreting department for 3 years. Santana returned to New Mexico in 2019 and obtained national certification through the Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf in 2021. Directly following certification, Santana took the New Mexico AOC’s written legal exam and is now a qualified legal interpreter. She has also spent time specializing in medical interpreting and works in all areas of the community.

schavez@rgc-access.org


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Brandi Burrell

Educational Consultant/Staff Interpreter

Brandi has been a nationally certified interpreter through RID since 2015. She graduated from the University of New Mexico in 2007 with a bachelor’s degree in Speech and Hearing Sciences and decided to continue her education in Sign Language Interpreting in Portland, Oregon. She graduated in 2012 with her Associates Degree. Brandi has worked as an educational interpreter since 2014, became staff with RGC Access in 2023, and is currently interpreting and providing consultation services to educational facilities that are new to having interpreters in the classrooms. More recently, Brandi has completed the Mental Health Interpreter Training through the Alabama’s Department of Mental Health’s Office of Deaf Services, and in continuing to grow as a mental health interpreter.

bburrell@rgc-access.org

 

Contact Us

RGC Access
PO Box 27619
Albuquerque, NM 87125