Leslie C. Greer received her MA from the University of Rochester, New York in Linguistics. She holds Professional Certification from the American Sign Language Teachers Association (ASLTA) and volunteered to work for the ASLTA certification office. She served the ASLTA Board members for 10 years. She is a past president of ASLTA for two terms (1998 to 2005). She served the Conference of Interpreter Trainers as Director of Public Relations and Outreach from 2007 to 2012 and 2022 to September 2025. Leslie was the first Deaf President of CIT since 2012. She had a stint as a weekly TV talk show host with ASL as the official language and was dubbed the “Deaf Oprah.”
Leslie retired the ASL Department Chair at the Mt. San Jacinto College, Menifee, California. She has presented numerous workshops on sign language teaching, Deaf culture, linguistics and interpreting throughout the country and world. She is fluent in Japanese Sign Language.