{"id":403,"date":"2015-10-07T18:55:01","date_gmt":"2015-10-07T18:55:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ata-divisions.org\/PLD\/?p=403"},"modified":"2017-09-20T18:55:26","modified_gmt":"2017-09-20T18:55:26","slug":"pld-member-spotlight-lets-meet-vera-caldas-wilkinson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ata-divisions.org\/PLD\/2015\/10\/07\/pld-member-spotlight-lets-meet-vera-caldas-wilkinson\/","title":{"rendered":"PLD Member Spotlight: Let\u2019s Meet Vera Caldas Wilkinson"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"Vera<\/p>\n

Vera Caldas Wilkinson at Saint Jerome\u2019s Monastery in Portugal
\nPHOTO CREDIT: From Vera\u2019s Personal Archives<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Name:
\n<\/strong>Vera Caldas Wilkinson<\/p>\n

Location:
\n<\/strong>Annandale, Virginia<\/p>\n

Email:
\n<\/strong>veracaldas.wilkinson@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n

What I do:
\n<\/strong>I work as an interpreter and study American law.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m most proud of:
\n<\/strong>Being a pioneer in the teaching of American Law in English to Brazilian lawyers, judges, and other professionals in the legal arena, including translators. After founding the Caldas Law Studies Center, a school of continuing legal education, I taught courses on the American Legal System, Contracts, Corporations, and other legal topics, emphasizing the differences between common law and civil law systems.<\/p>\n

My background:
\n<\/strong>I was born in S\u00e3o Paulo, Brazil. There I completed a B.A. in Languages (English and Portuguese), studied Spanish, and received an M.A. in Applied Linguistics. Before becoming a lawyer, I taught English for many years at the Uni\u00e3o Cultural Brasil-Estados Unidos and other places. In 2006 I married an American lawyer and moved to the U.S., where I completed a Masters of Comparative Law (M.C.L.) degree and an LL.M. I have lived in Alabama, Alaska, and Virginia, and have now settled in the D.C. area.<\/p>\n

Why do I belong to the PLD?
\n<\/strong>To exchange knowledge and to give and receive support in the professional field.<\/p>\n

Major challenge(s) in my career:
\n<\/strong>Starting and managing my own business.<\/p>\n

What I\u2019m reading now:
\n<\/strong>A Chave de Salom\u00e3o<\/em>\u00a0by Jos\u00e9 Rodrigues dos Santos, a thrilling story which transports its hero from Portugal to Washington, D.C. Although it\u2019s fiction, it uses genuine scientific information about the mind, the body, and the enigma of existence. Also \u201cThomas Jefferson \u2015 an Intimate History<\/a>\u201d by Fawn Brodie, which goes beyond Jefferson\u2019s political and revolutionary life to reveal his human side, ambivalences and passions.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Vera Caldas Wilkinson at Saint Jerome\u2019s Monastery in Portugal PHOTO CREDIT: From Vera\u2019s Personal Archives Name: Vera Caldas Wilkinson Location: Annandale, Virginia Email: veracaldas.wilkinson@gmail.com What I do: I work as an interpreter and study American law. I\u2019m most proud of: Being a pioneer in the teaching of American Law in English to Brazilian lawyers, judges, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"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-403","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-member-spotlight","7":"entry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ata-divisions.org\/PLD\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ata-divisions.org\/PLD\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=403"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ata-divisions.org\/PLD\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":405,"href":"https:\/\/www.ata-divisions.org\/PLD\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403\/revisions\/405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ata-divisions.org\/PLD\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ata-divisions.org\/PLD\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ata-divisions.org\/PLD\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}