Brand the Interpreter

The last interview of the year 2020 on the Brand the Interpreter Podcast brings us the amazing and talented Giovanna Carriero-Contreras.  Giovanna is CEO and co-founder of CESCO Linguistic Services, a language services provider located in Denver, Colorado, USA. Join the conversation as Giovanna shares her incredible story of how interpreting captured her heart and ultimately founded a language service company based on ethical principles and integrity.  Join the Conversation!

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Episode Notes:
Cesco Linguistic Services
Giovanna Carriero-Contreras Named 2020 Bill Daniels Ethical Leader of the Year
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Episode #19 of the Brand the Interpreter Podcast brings us Mr. William Glasser, President, and Founder of Language World Services, an employee-based interpreting agency. Not sure what that means?  Tune in to find out more about how William Glasser's interpreting agency differs from the language service providers we are most familiar with, and what his take on AB-5 was (might surprise you).

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Episode Notes:
Language World Services - Hiring Interpreters!
Fluency

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Friday Q&A's are special episodes dedicated to questions submitted by audience members. Tune in to listen to this special episode of Friday Q&A's on Brand the Interpreter.

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Kleber Palma is currently the Director of the New York City Department of Education's Translation and Interpretation Unit, which he established in 2004. The unit provides translation and interpretation services, and language access support to more than 1,800 schools throughout New York City, servicing over 1.1 million parents of which 40% speak a language other than English and cover over 100 different languages!

Prior to this, Kleber served as the Director of the Los Angeles Unified School District's Translations Unit - the second-largest school system in the country,  a Language Specialist for the FBI, and a Translation Services Manager for a private firm in California. He has extensive experience as a freelance Spanish translator and a language access consultant and holds a BA in International Relations from the University of Southern California and an MBA from the California State University in Los Angeles.

Kleber shares with us information on how we too can begin a language access plan in our school districts. If you are an interpreter specializing in the K-12 public education system, you won't want to miss this episode. Join the conversation and help Brand the Interpreter in Education!


EPISODE NOTES:
Kleber Palma on LinkedIn
New York City Department of Education
Chancellor’s Regulation A-663


Interpreter Education Online - Language Access and the New Reality, Winter Edition
ITE Workgroup

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Episode #17 of the Brand the Interpreter Podcast brings us Katharine Allen, President of InterpretAmerica, licensed interpreter trainer, and a fellow community interpreter with over 3 decades of professional interpreting experience.  Join the conversation as we talk about what community interpreting is and the challenges many trained (and untrained) interpreters face in the K-12 public school systems.  Join the conversation!

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EPISODE NOTES

• InterpretAmerica
•  CoPTIC

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Mary Hernandez Castellanos is an enthusiastic freelance interpreter working in the specialty of community interpreting.  She began her interpreting career in a community setting and quickly discovered this is where her passion lied.  She loves being a freelancer and an asset to her community. Join the conversation and listen to her tell her story!

EPISODE NOTES

• Instagram:  mhc_interpreting
• LinkedIn: Mary Hernandez Castellanos
• YouTube:  Mary Hernandez Castellanos

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Rafa Lombardino, an established Portuguese translator, joins us on today's episode to talk about her story and the tools that have helped her through the years as an independent translator. She is the author of “Tools and Technology in Translation - The Profile of Beginning Language Professionals in the Digital Age,” published in 2004, a Proz.com instructor as well as an instructor at the University of California San Diego Extension, Certificate in Translation Program.

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EPISODE NOTES:
Book: http://bit.ly/T3-book » Online Class: http://bit.ly/T3-Class-UCSDExt » YouTube Channel: http://bit.ly/T3-YouTube » Podcast: http://bit.ly/TC-podcast » Webinars: http://bit.ly/Proz-Trainer » Facebook Page: http://bit.ly/T3-FBPage » Twitter: http://bit.ly/RL-Twitter » Website: http://RafaLombardino.com » Email: [email protected]

Book Mention:
Atomic Habits by James Clear


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Episode #14 brings us Zenab Khouder, an Arabic certified court interpreter. She began her career after being persuaded to do so by an acquaintance and immediately falling in love with the profession. She started as an approved court interpreter in Austin Texas in 2020; provisionally qualified in the Superior Court of California; CCHI Core Certified Health Care Interpreter in 2017, Certified by the State of Illinois Supreme Court, and so much more.
In 2020 Zenab became CHIA's Interpreter of the Year!

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Zenab's Contact Information:
Email: [email protected]
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC00JhQFr9Rgjj258UcGeWow?view_as=subscriber
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/zenab-khouder-bb94621a/
Facebook:Legal & Court Interpretation for Arabic Speakers.https://www.facebook.com/groups/350277238738785


EPISODE SHOW NOTES:
www.brandtheinterpreter.com
YOUR PERSONAL BRAND – PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER TO REVEAL A BRAND NEW YOU - interpretertraining-online.com/special-topics-ri-webinar-series

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Episode #13 is all about team interpreting. Join this hour-long, fun conversation with Ernest Niño-Murcia a freelance interpreter based in Des Moines, Iowa. A state and federally certified court interpreter that has interpreted legal proceedings and prepared translations, transcriptions, and expert witness reports/testimony for clients in the private and public sectors.

Vanessa Marcano-Kelly a certified court interpreter in the state of Iowa, owner and lead linguist at Caracas Language Solutions, LLC since 2015. She is also a contracted translator with Principal Financial Group, a Fortune 500 Company.

Vanessa specializes in community, conference, and legal interpretation, as well as translation, subtitling, and some voiceover work.

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Episode Notes:
Ernest's LinkedIn - TEA Language Solutions
Vanessa's LinkedIn - Vanessacmarcano.com / Caracas Language Solutions

Videos of what they´ve already done for IPTV

Midwest Association of Translators and Interpreters - Interpreting Gear 101 by Ernest Niño-Murcia
The University of Arizona's National Center for Interpretation - Expanding your Toolbox: Using Zoom for Remote Simultaneous Interpreting (RSI) - T.E.A Language Solutions

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Episode 12 of the Brand the Interpreter Podcast dives right into the conversation of ASL interpreting. Join me as I learn a little more about ASL interpreting through the eyes of Rorri Burton.
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EPISODE NOTES:
Sign One News
Daily Moth
Instagram: @blackterplife

Music: Sunshine on my Shoulders Piano Instrumental

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