Brenda Liebman Aron was born into a Deaf family, the fourth of all daughters in Brooklyn, New York. As for Brenda's educational experience, she attended P.S. 47, an oral school, after that, she was the sole Deaf girl in a public school for four years. For her high years, Brenda attended Fanwood, in White Plains, N.Y. Brenda graduated from Gallaudet University with a B.A. in English and later received her Masters in Teaching American Sign Language from Western Maryland College (now called McDaniel College).

Brenda is married to a wonderful man named Len and the proud mother of two young ladies named Marisa and Shauna. Brenda has been grateful that she has had the opportunity to garner over 25 years' experience in a variety of jobs teaching ASL. She has taught in a non-credit, for credit community college, college, in Deaf schools and public high school for hearing students. Brenda also enjoyed honing and sharing her craft in teaching ASL in lectures and workshops.

Brenda is presently living in Atlanta, Georgia and involved in several different projects. She is teaching at Georgia Perimeter College, working with families with Deaf babies as a Deaf mentor, signing ASL stories for a project at Atlanta Area School for the Deaf. Check out http://www.aasdweb.com/CATS/ . Brenda was the past President and still actively involved with Georgia American Sign Language Teachers' Association (GA-ASLTA).

Founder and CEO of The Elijah Agency, a business and educational consulting group, has worked extensively in higher education since 1982. Her professional experiences include Founding Director of Minority Scholars Institute, Assistant Athletic Director of Academic Affairs and tenured instructor of Child Care and Development at Lamar University, Beaumont, Texas. As a certified mediator specializing in gang intervention, she developed the first Conflict Resolution course and taught court-mandated Parent Education classes at San Diego Community College district, San Diego, California.

Her breadth of knowledge in interpreting American Sign Language expands 35 years in a multiplicity of settings including legal, educational, medical, corporate, and the arts and entertainment.

Currently, a resident of Savannah, Georgia, Ms. Taylor travels throughout the United States presenting educational workshops at schools, conferences and universities. She received her Master of Science in Education specializing in School Psychology from Duquesne University and a Bachelor of Science in Education with a concentration in Early Childhood Education at Edinboro University of Pennsylvania. Ms. Taylor has received additional training in linguistics and interpreting at Gallaudet University, Washington, D.C. and substance abuse at The Betty Ford Center, Palm Desert, California.