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Accountability Coordinator
June Ann LeFors
June Ann LeFors is an instructor and the director of the ASL program at Flagler College in Saint Augustine, Florida. She is a freelance deaf interpreter and ASL translator in the central and northeast Florida areas. She is also an appointed member of the Early Hearing Detection and Intervention Advisory Committee for the Florida Department of Health and serves on the Florida School for the Deaf and Blind Board of Trustees. A state-certified K-12 teacher, LeFors previously worked at FSDB for 10 years in several roles: ASL specialist and evaluator, preschool teacher in the Early Learning Center, and as a parent advisor in the Parent Infant Program. She earned her master's degree in Deaf Education/ Deaf Studies from Lamar University and a bachelor's in Elementary Education from Gallaudet University. She and her husband, Eric (a physical education teacher at FSDB), have six daughters - three of whom are Deaf or Hard of Hearing.
Record Coordinator
Katie Vetter
Katie, who goes by her real name "Katelyn," was born and raised in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
As the only Deaf person in her family, she developed a love for sports and staying active. She has played volleyball, basketball, soccer, and track. She earned dual majors in Special Education and Elementary Education, with a minor in Deaf Education, at Bloomsburg University in Pennsylvania. Eager to deepen her knowledge of Deaf Education, she pursued postgraduate studies at McDaniel College in Maryland, where she earned a Master's degree in Deaf Education.
Katie has taught at both Deaf public and private schools, as well as in a self-contained classroom for Deaf students at a mainstream school. She and her Deaf husband, Joe Vetter, have two young hearing (CODAs) sons.
Currently, she is an adjunct professor, teaching American Sign Language classes at St. Petersburg College's Clearwater campus. Katie continues to serve as a board member of the Family Center on Deafness (FCD) and has also been a Board member of the Florida Deaf Art Show (FDAS).
Finance Coordinator
Ralena McDevitt
Ralena grew up in Connecticut. Currently, she teaches undergraduate American Sign Language courses (ASL 1, 2, and 3) in the Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences at the University of Florida (UF). She earned her bachelor’s degree in psychology from Gallaudet University (1995), master’s degree in Mental Health Counseling from Gallaudet University (1997), and master’s degree in Deaf Studies/Deaf Education from Lamar University (2011). Before joining UF in July 2022, she was an ASL Distance Learning instructor for the Colorado School for the Deaf and the Blind Outreach Programs.
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