The Research on Interpreter and Translator Education (RITE) laboratory is a new addition to the National Technical Institute of the Deaf’s Sensory, Perceptual, and Cognitive Ecology (SPaCE) Center. The mission of the RITE lab is to perform socially conscious research on the education of signed language interpreters including broad focus on: students, faculty, curricula, assessment, history, and institutions. The goal of the lab is to create inquiry-based scholarship to inform improvements to the discipline of interpreter education and improve the quality of interpreting to the Deaf and hearing communities.