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Where do you currently live?<\/strong> What motivated you to join the leadership of the PLD?<\/strong> What was your role in the PLD, and when did you serve?<\/strong> What were the dynamics of PLD at that time?<\/strong> What do you consider your greatest contribution to the advancement of the PLD?<\/strong> What are you currently doing, both professionally and personally? <\/strong> What is your vision for the future of the PLD?<\/strong> What advice do you have for PLD members today?<\/strong> Where do you currently live? Rio de Janeiro, Brazil What motivated you to join the leadership of the PLD? It was a natural and obvious decision for me back in the 1990s, with no family in the U.S., but enjoying my life as a solo world explorer. I was leaving a boring consular job […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2725,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2722","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-member-spotlight","8":"entry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ata-divisions.org\/PLD\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/2024-Tete-almoco-colegas-RSI-interpretes-Tereza-Braga-1-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ata-divisions.org\/PLD\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ata-divisions.org\/PLD\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ata-divisions.org\/PLD\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ata-divisions.org\/PLD\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ata-divisions.org\/PLD\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2722"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.ata-divisions.org\/PLD\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2728,"href":"https:\/\/www.ata-divisions.org\/PLD\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2722\/revisions\/2728"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ata-divisions.org\/PLD\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ata-divisions.org\/PLD\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ata-divisions.org\/PLD\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ata-divisions.org\/PLD\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nRio de Janeiro, Brazil<\/p>\n
\nIt was a natural and obvious decision for me back in the 1990s, with no family in the U.S., but enjoying my life as a solo world explorer. I was leaving a boring consular job in Dallas when a translation company located in the same building approached me and told me about this profession. ATA gave me an intellectual home I had unknowingly been craving and also gave me the opportunity to use all the talents I had thus far developed. My best friends today are colleagues I met at ATA, and the PLD was our wonderful and natural inner circle.<\/p>\n
\nI think I served every role there over the years, until I was elected Administrator and ended up serving 4 terms at the helm. I edited our newsletter, gathered teams of contributing writers and editors, campaigned for ATA approval of distinguished speakers at the annual conference, and organized some of our much-missed PLD mid-year conferences (each time in a different city) by selecting volunteer speakers from Portuguese-speaking countries.<\/p>\n
\nSocial interactions were intense always. Almost all of us were immigrants in the U.S. from different Portuguese-speaking countries. We joined U.S.-born linguists who loved Portuguese and had different life experiences in Brazil and Portugal. Our natural desire to form a community of collaboration, discovery and new friendships was, I think, key to our success.<\/p>\n
\nBuilding on the efforts of my predecessors who created one of the oldest and most successful divisions of ATA and motivating a new generation of leaders for the advancement of Portuguese linguists.<\/p>\n
\nI am still conference interpreting internationally with a much lighter load, as a happy semi-retired digital nomad. I keep close contact with my Washington friends and colleagues, but I am very happy living more permanently now in my native Rio de Janeiro.<\/p>\n
\nI will leave that question to the new generation of leaders.<\/p>\n
\nFace your fears, get close to leaders you admire, believe them when they say you have talents to share.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"