2007 Interview with Ella Mae Lentz
Channel: RIT Libraries
Date: 2019-11-21

Summarized by Joan Naturale. This video is from the Miriam and Kenny Lerner collection. 

Lentz is interviewed by Miriam Lerner. Lentz discusses ‘Deafhood’, social justice, the Deaf community, colonialism, the popularity and awareness of sign language, stem cells, education of parents with Deaf children, Deaf culture, mainstreaming, captioning and voicing of videos, a Deaf museum imaginative story, her poetry work, Deaf poets, the influence of a Gallaudet professor, John Canney, ASL poetry conferences, and her Deaf school background in Berkley where she was exposed to civil rights protests daily on her treks to school. 

Visual description: Ella has short gray curly hair and glasses. She is wearing an olive green shirt with 3/4 sleeves. For more information, please go to the Deaf Studies Archive finding aid link URL: 
https://archivesspace.rit.edu/repositories/2/resources/815

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