Jackie Emmart
American Sign Language, BS
2005
Jackie Emmart initially registered for an American Sign Language class just to fulfill her foreign language requirement. She entered Northeastern with her sights set on working in television as a talk show hostess. She could have never imagined that less than two weeks after taking her first ASL 1 class, she would change her major and her career choice, all because of the instructional strategies seamlessly employed by her ASL teacher, Jim Lipsky. Here is her Northeastern story…