In our fourth episode, Sarah and Katherine speak with Wedad Maatouk about her work as a district student services liaison. Wedad collaborates with a team of multilingual liaisons to ensure that students and parents in her school district have full language access by coordinating and providing translation and interpretation as needed.

Wedad is fluent in Arabic and knowledgeable in French and Spanish. She was born in Dearborn, Michigan and raised in Beirut, Lebanon. Wedad has a master's in TESOL from Madonna University, and is adjunct ELI faculty at Henry Ford College in addition to her work as a district student services liaison for Dearborn Public Schools. She worked in the UAE as an assistant principal for two years and as an English faculty at Qatar University's English Foundation Program for two years.

Connect with Wedad on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/wedad-maatouk-a1849626

Connect with Katherine on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/katherinermatheson/

Connect with Sarah on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/sarah-kosel-agnihotri

Here is the transcript for this episode.