![[ATA 57th Annual Conference]](https://i1.wp.com/www.ata-divisions.org/ID/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Icon-square_big.jpg?resize=150%2C150){kind=icon}
An Interview by Marsel de Souza Marsel de Souza: I would like to start by discussing the topic of the Advanced Skills and Training session you are presenting at ATA's Annual Conference in San Francisco. You will be talking about Sight Translation Skills for Translators and Interpreters during this sold out event on November 2, 2016. What can attendees expect to take … [Read more...]
Robyn Dean on Ethics: Metaphors or Values?
In preparation for the ATA conference, Marsel de Souza interviewed Robyn Dean, the Interpreters Division's guest speaker at the ATA 57th Annual Conference in San Francisco. This interview focuses on the following sessions and much more: Returning to Ethics: A Meta-Ethical Analysis of Community Interpreters’ Codes and Standards of Practice Critiquing and Deconstructing … [Read more...]
Behind the Scenes Interview with Esther M. Hermida
![[theater image]](https://i1.wp.com/www.ata-divisions.org/ID/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/theatre-1093862_1280.jpg?resize=150%2C150)
Do you have a special interest in a particular sport, fashion, science or are you culinary buff? Ever wonder how to expand your interpreting opportunities? Interpret for one of your life’s passions? Well then you may want to check out this Code Switch Media article of a behind-the-scenes interview with Esther M. Hermida, a federally certified court interpreter for over 25 … [Read more...]
Meet the Interpreter: Diane E. Teichman
By Cristina McDowell From the Ground Up Interview of Diane E. Teichman by Cristina McDowell with the collaboration of Carol Velandia Cristina McDowell (CM): Diane, for over eleven generations your family has served the United States judicial system as lawyers, judges, justices of the Supreme Court and records archivists and continues to do so today. The … [Read more...]
Meet the Interpreter: Melinda González-Hibner
![[word cloud - Melinda]](https://i0.wp.com/www.ata-divisions.org/ID/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Melinda-word-cloud.jpg?resize=150%2C150)
By Cristina McDowell Interview of Melinda González-Hibner by Cristina McDowell For many of you Melinda does not need an introduction. I first met Melinda at the ATA Conference in Chicago in 2014. She immediately struck me as a person who was open, engaging, and helpful. Melinda is an accomplished interpreter (she is a state and federally certified … [Read more...]