Outreach and Teaching Team

We have some new members of the ASL at Home team! We’re so excited to have them onboard.

  • Leah, a white Latina woman in her mid-30s with dark brown hair in a half ponytail, gray short-sleeved shirt, and dangly beaded earrings, sits outside and smiles at the camera in front of a hedge of ivy.

    Leah Geer

    Leah Geer, PhD is a deaf, Latina, trilingual Associate Professor and Program Coordinator for the ASL and Deaf Studies program at California State University, Sacramento. She has been teaching ASL since 2011.

    Click here for her website.

  • Razi Zarchy, a white man in his early 40s with short black hair, is wearing a dark blue button-up shirt with a small white pattern on it. He is smiling at the camera in front of a blurry background that shows he is outdoors in front of trees.

    Razi Zarchy

    Razi Zarchy, SLPD, CCC-SLP is a hearing, ASL-fluent speech-language pathologist with 12 years of experience, mostly in early intervention and preschool with deaf and hard of hearing children and their families. He is now a lecturer and clinical instructor at California State University, Sacramento and a student in the PhD in Education and Leadership at Pacific University, Oregon.

    Click here for his website.

  • Sara Goico Alcantar, a woman with light skin and long curly dark-blond hair, smiles at the camera. She is wearing a dark green shirt with a white flowery pattern on it. She is outside in front of a metal fence with leaves peeking through.

    Sara Goico Alcantar

    Sara Goico Alcantar, PhD is a hearing Early Start Teacher of the Deaf in Los Angeles Unified School District working with deaf and hard of hearing children from birth to 3 years old and their families. She is quadrilingual in English, ASL, Spanish, and Peruvian Sign Language.

    Sara received her Ph.D. in Linguistic Anthropology from the University of California, San Diego, and held a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of California, Los Angeles. Sara conducted research with deaf children in Iquitos, Peru for 15 years. Her research focused on the social and educational experiences of deaf children who have not had sustained access to either Spanish or Peruvian Sign Language. While conducting research in Iquitos, Sara supported the formation of a parents’ association and the first public deaf education program in the city.

    Click here for her website.

  • Cami Glach, a light-skinned woman with shoulder-length wavy light brown hair, smiles at the camera. She is wearing a green turtleneck sweater with a gold-colored necklace on the oustide of it. The background is blurry and looks like trees.

    Cami Glach

    Cami Glach is a mother, graduate student, and ASL interpreter. Her love for children, language access, and American Sign Language led her to pursue a master’s at Gallaudet University in Early Intervention Studies for deaf and hard of hearing children. She received her undergraduate degree in Deaf Studies-Interpreting from Utah Valley University.

    Cami enjoys spending time with her family (including her adorable dog), ice cream, learning, working out, and dabbling in hobbies such as embroidery and rock climbing.