Shirley X. Moore is a native of Aguadilla, Puerto Rico but was raised in the Olneyville neighborhood of
Providence, RI. Shirley migrated with her family at the tender age of five, and she soon began
interpreting for her mother and friends. Shirley believes she has a unique perspective when it comes to
interpreting because she is a self-proclaimed “outlier” (Gladwell, 2008). Shirley has spent her entire life
bridging communication for limited English speaking people within different human service systems. She
believes her experiences as a child help her provide the best interpretation and support for her clients.
Shirley started working at the age of fourteen when she was hired as the Bilingual Outreach Worker at a
local community center. Through that position, she learned to serve the community at large with the
skills she had been developing for years. In 2006, Shirley began her professional interpreting career at
Catholic Charities Archdiocese of Boston where she worked with local, state and federal organizations
and businesses to bridge communication between professionals and their clients.
In 2007, Shirley volunteered at Praise Tabernacle Church to share God’s love with the homeless
population. While there, she started two programs one that gave make-overs to homeless women every
six weeks. Another, which helped individuals get back into the workforce by assisting with interviewing
skills, resume writing and job search. Shirley is one of the founding members of the RI Dream Center, a
faith-based non-profit that supports homeless individuals in the Providence area. In 2012, Pastor Shirley
became the Executive Director of the RI Dream Center. It was at that time that she noticed that most of
the people she supported had one thing in common, they came from broken homes. That’s when she
began to shift careers into supporting and stabilizing families.
Shirley has served on the Board of Directors of Young Leader’s Fellowship; the Mayor Tavares’
(Providence, RI) Ministerial Committee; has been Wraparound Facilitator at Family Service of RI; the
Operations Manager of the RI Renegades; Director of Operations at The Mullings Group; Training
Consultant for Bootstrap Bootcamp; Marriage on the Rock Facilitator and a Domestic Violence Advocate
at the Women’s Resource Center; she’s currently a Founding Member and the Director of Operations at
the Institute of Entrepreneurship and Leadership and coaches entrepreneurs on business launch and
Shirley graduated with her Bachelor’s Degree in Human Services from Springfield College and possesses
a Master’s of Science in Organizational Management and Leadership.
Shirley is an experienced Interpreter serving Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese speaking individuals for
over fifteen years. In 2016, Shirley partnered with her friend, Zoila Bernal, to launch Be Moore
Interpreting because they believe that there is a way to “Creatively Bridge Communication.” They would
like to transform the interpreting field through consistently evaluating their services and searching for
the hidden outliers within the world community.
Be Moore Interpreting led Shirley to launch her new project- The Rail, a coworking space in downtown
Pawtucket. The Rail aims to support urban entrepreneurial dreams by removing some of the barriers to
entry for “unlikely” entrepreneurs. Shirley believes The Rail is only an evolution of the work she started
so many years ago, before she addressed basic needs, now she helps her community identify creative
ways to leave lasting legacies.
Shirley lives by the following words: “She believed she could… So, she did!”
