SDCRId Mission statement

• Disability status
• Age
• Deaf, DeafBlind, Deaf Disabled, Hard of Hearing, Late-Deafened
• Immigration status
• Sign language interpreting experience
• Certification status and level
• Language and/or communication background
• Ethnic identity 
• Race
• Gender/non-binary identity or expression
• Religious affiliation 
• Sexual orientation 
• Socioeconomic status
• Geographic region

To that end, we strive for equity and multiculturalism in every area of SDCRID.   We are firmly aware that there are differences that exist among people who represent a 21st century population and provide for innumerable resources within the sign language interpreting community.   Our commitment to equity and multiculturalism reflects and stems from our understanding of present and future needs of both our organization and local practitioners.

LAND ACKNOWLEDGMENT

San Diego County Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf (SDCRID) recognizes ​the resilient and continued presence of the Payómkawichum/Luiseño, Kuméyaay/Ipai/Diegueño, Kuupangaxwichem/Cupeño, and Ívillyuatem/Cahuilla Nations.  These Nations compel SDCRID to take sustainable and respectful action to engage the land and its First People with justice and compassion as fellow human beings.  SDCRID acknowledges it occupies and benefits from the unceded ancestral lands of these sovereign Nations and commits to promoting Indigenous knowledge systems and practices of inclusion in its mission.  SDCRID pledges to foster an environment that supports Indigenous community members and engages the needs and concerns of the Nations who continue to occupy this land.