Dr. Roberson is currently the Director of the ASL/English Interpreting Program at the University of North Florida in Jacksonville, Florida.      Dr. Roberson is a leader, an innovator, an educator, an interpreting practitioner and a researcher.  His passions are many and among them include teaching others to teach effectively and with engagement.  For many years, Dr. Roberson has been engaged in learning how adults learn best and how educators can dynamically engage learners.

He as been at UNF since 1998 and in that time has been the graduate program director of the Deaf Education program, Department Chair, and is a tenured Professor in the department of Exception, Deaf, and Interpreter Education.  He served as Dean of Graduate Education and Associate Vice-President of Academic Technology as well.  Dr. Roberson has been involved in the fields of deaf education and interpreting for 25 years and holds a Ph.D. from Gallaudet University in Deaf Education and Interactive Instructional Design.  He is a nationally certified interpreter, holding both the certificate of interpretation (CI) and the certificate of transliteration (CT) and the Specialist Certificate:  Legal (SC:L) from the National Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf (RID).

Dr. Roberson enjoys giving back to the profession and has been a volunteer leader for many years in a variety of capacities.  He served on the Board of Directors of the Commission on Collegiate Interpreter Education (CCIE) as President of the national accreditation organization. In addition, Dr. Roberson wass the Member-At-Large serving on the national Board of Directors of the Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf (RID) and served a member of the Board of Directors of Hope Signs, an international non-profit organization that strives to enhance the quality of life for the deaf in developing countries by providing them with access to language, education, and vocational training.

Dr. Roberson has published several articles in the area of teacher effectiveness and educator preparation and legal interpreting and service-learning in interpreter education.  His current research is in the fields of legal interpreting and mediated educational experiences of Deaf children, and effective use of technologies for teaching and learning.   He serves on national committees and the co-editor for the international Journal of Interpretation.   Since joining UNF in 1998, Dr. Roberson has received more than 4 million dollars in external funding as the principal investigator for numerous grants.

Dr. Roberson is married and has eight beautiful children, 4 girls and 4 boys and 5 amazing grandchildren.