Meet Your Instructor
Holly Rioux, LICSW
Holly Rioux is a Deaf social worker in New Hampshire who has been locally serving in social work and human services for over twenty years. Holly first worked in human services directly supporting individuals with developmental disabilities and later individuals with severe mental illnesses in the community.
Holly is the former Director of Deaf Services and Language Access at Greater Nashua Mental Health. Since December 2023, Holly now serves as the Communication Access Administrator at NH Department of Health and Human Services. Throughout her career, Holly has worked with clinicians of various communication abilities and cultural backgrounds who are best able to serve their respective populations. Holly also enjoyed her experience as an adjunct professor teaching Sociocultural Perspectives on Deaf Culture, and Mental Health Interpreting at University of New Hampshire, and Micro Interventions in Social Work Practices with the Deaf and Hard of Hearing at Gallaudet University.
Holly’s self-care activities include time spent with her partner and pups, being outdoors in warm weather and binging questionable doses of streaming television in the winter.
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