{"id":4112,"date":"2016-12-09T08:35:07","date_gmt":"2016-12-09T12:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ata-divisions.org\/ID\/?p=4112"},"modified":"2016-12-09T08:49:34","modified_gmt":"2016-12-09T12:49:34","slug":"ata57-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ata-divisions.org\/ID\/ata57-recap\/","title":{"rendered":"ATA57 Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"
By Farah Arjang<\/strong><\/h5>\n

\"[ATA57<\/p>\n

I<\/span> had not attended the ATA annual conference since the 50th in New York City because fall is the conference season, when I am busy as a conference interpreter. Fortunately, this year I was able to attend and noticed a drastic change as compared to previous conferences.<\/p>\n

I cannot rave enough about the Conference App, which smoothed navigating through the chaotic days of the conference. It assisted the attendees in retrieving the sessions and put detailed information about the conference at their fingertips.<\/p>\n

I signed up for the Buddies Welcome Newbies<\/a> program, which pairs up more experienced ATA conference attendees with first-time conferees. I paired up with three Newbies, three young Chinese women who were spending their first few months of graduate school in the US. The conference and the whole culture and country were new to them, which made our partnership a richer experience. We were able to connect beyond the ATA conference, and their questions gave me the opportunity to think in new ways.<\/p>\n

\"[Mia,
Mia, Farah, Lillian, Yifan at ATA57<\/figcaption><\/figure>As an Interpreters Division (ID) Leadership Council member, I was excited to participate at the ID annual meeting. It was very well attended and Marsel de Souza, the then Assistant Administrator, had prepared an informative presentation for the attendees. He submitted the results of the ID members\u2019 survey of 2015 and the work that the Interpreters Division has done in this regard.<\/p>\n