Language Services

LANGUAGE ACCESS

The Language Access Program is there to help you communicate with families. Services they provide include: interpreting, translating, cultural brokering, and training.

Please call with questions about our services such as requesting interpretation/translation services; scheduling interpreters for an event at your school; professional development; or when you have questions or need help communicating with language minority families. 

MAUREEN CLANCY, Language Access Coordinator, 207-874-8135 ext.7812

Parent and Community Specialist by their Language Group:
RIHAB AL TOUMA – For assistance with Arabic speakers, 207-842-4642
AHMED JASIM – For assistance with Arabic speakers, 207-842-4645
BETSY PAZ-GYIMESI – For assistance with Spanish speakers, 207-842-4639
EDWARD LABOKE – For assistance with Acholi and Sudanese Arabic speakers, 207-842-4649 THUY SULLIVAN –For assistance with Vietnamese speakers, 207-842-4647
JOSEPHINE BIZIMANA –For assistance with French, Kirundi, Kinyarwanda, Swahili speakers, 207-842-4648.
MONIQUE MUTUMWINKA –For assistance with French, Lingala, Kinyarwanda, Swahili speakers, 207-842-4638
MAHDI ABDULLE – For assistance with Somali speakers, 207-842-4644
PIRUN SEN – For assistance with Khmer speakers, 207-842-4641
SHAMSO FARAH – For assistance with Somali speakers, 207-842-4643
BERTHLEY DESPACIO – For assistance with Portuguese speakers, 207-842-4646
JULIANA BEAN – For assistance with Portuguese and Spanish speakers, 207- 842-4651 12

JEANNA BEST- Administrative Secretary, 207-874-8135 x.7806


Please call when you need an interpreter right away, or have a question on a Help Desk ticket, or a scheduled interpreter appointment. Please send by email documents for written translations or school messengers to be completed in our top 8 languages.