Serving the Central and Northern Regions of California

About Us

Shelly Browning MA, CI, CT ~ Founder


Shelly holds an AA degree in Sign Language Interpreting, a BA degree in Cultural Anthropology and an MA degree in English as a Second Language. She took her first sign language class at the age of 13 in order to be able to communicate with her Deaf cousin. Since then, she has made a life long career of joyously working within the Deaf community in a variety of settings ranging from Deaf schools, to employment development for the Deaf, and most notably as a Peace Corps volunteer in Tunisia, North Africa where she taught at a small school for the Deaf in the Sahara desert. She has worked as a freelance sign language interpreter since 1990 in a variety of settings including business, corporate, mental health, medical, and technical environments. She particularly enjoys working in educational settings and has experience interpreting in all levels of education from kindergarten classrooms to PhD programs. Outside of sign language interpreting she enjoys traveling, yoga, hiking, gardening, and aromatherapy.

Mary Nelson BA, CI, CT ~ Scheduling Wizard

mary-nelsonA native of Los Angeles, Mary Nelson moved to the North Bay in December of 2005 with her best friend and husband Tadd, and has fallen in love with the area and its people. While in L.A., she graduated on the Deans List with an AA from L.A. Pierce College’s Interpreter Training Program in 1995, and with her BA from California State University of Northridge cum laude in 2000. Mary then moved to Idaho to earn a BS in Educational Interpreting from Idaho State University and graduated cum laude and with High Honors in 2006. She has been a mentor to student interpreters and interpreters new to the field for over 12 years. She formerly served as vice president and secretary of the Northern California Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf and was recently elected member at large. What really makes Mary’s clock tick are hiking, camping and cooking up a storm.