Our last conference in June was dedicated to the visibility of the profession. However, this is such a deep topic that one conference can’t cover it all! This December, we will continue our discussion about elevating your and industry visibility by exploring a variety of topics from VRI and interpreting for large events like Olympics to MTPE best practices and establishing your business.
13:00-14:00 PST / 16:00-17:00 EST
Bruce is a CEO of Federal Compliance Consulting LLC, and nationally recognized for his compliance expertise concerning federal laws. Mr. Adelson is a former U.S Department of Justice Senior Attorney. During his Justice career, Mr. Adelson had national enforcement and policy responsibility. 14:00-15:00 PST / 17:00-18:00 EST
Andrea is a full-time interpreter and the principal investigator for grant-funded research on interpreter mental fatigue. She has been active in healthcare interpreting for 25 years. Andrea earned her B.A. in Spanish & International Studies with a minor in Ethnic Studies, and shortly after, began her career as a freelance interpreter in Portland, Oregon. Andrea was later promoted to full-time OPI interpreting at Pacific Interpreters’ headquarters. With her relocation to Atlanta, she embarked on six years of management, developing interpreter services departments for two healthcare systems. Andrea has received over 175 hours of interpreter education and has attended 30+ conferences. She is a volunteer member of the NCIHC Home for Trainers webinar workgroup and was recently named a CCHI commissioner. Andrea regularly presents on advanced practice strategies for healthcare interpreters, as well as research on a tool that measures mental fatigue. 
7:00-7:05 PST / 10:00-10:05 EST
Jinny is the Executive Director of Linguist Education Online and the Founder of Bromberg & Associates, a Language Solutions Company, a WBE and DBE certified business and holder of the GSA Federal Supply Schedule award. Jinny is the first court-certified Russian Interpreter in Michigan, Corp Magazine’s Most Valuable Professional awardee and a passionate advocate for language access for all. To improve quality of interpreting services worldwide, she developed Linguist Education Online training platform in 2009 and has grown it into the cutting edge globally known organization. Jinny’s strongest quality is tenacity. She is a workaholic whose favorite thing about her job is having never-ending opportunities to learn, as well as seeing the passion of people in this industry. 7:05-8:30 PST / 10:05-11:30 EST
Dr. Rivers is the immediate past and founding Chair of ASTM Technical Committee F43, Language Services and Products, and chairs the U.S. Technical Advisory Group to ISO Technical Committee 232, Education and Learning Services. He serves as a member of the America’s Languages Working Group of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and is an honorary member of the Association of Language Companies, and recipient of the ALC Bill Graeper Award in 2019.
Natalya Mytareva, M.A., CoreCHI™ is the Managing Director of the Certification Commission of Healthcare Interpreters (CCHI) since October 2013, one of its founding Commissioners, and the past Chair of CCHI. Since 2003, Natalya has been teaching a variety of courses to healthcare interpreters of various facilities in Ohio. She is the author and instructor of courses for interpreters of languages of lesser diffusion. Natalya has delivered a variety of presentations for healthcare and social service providers on cultural competence, working with interpreters, and serving refugee populations. 
Caitilin is an ATA-Certified French-English translator who delights in producing publication-quality translations for the computer industry and food lovers alike. A graduate of Willamette University (OR) and the Université de Strasbourg (France), and the past President of the American Translators Association, she currently chairs the ATA Education & Pedagogy Committee. She brings her strong opinions on professionalism as an instructor of Ethics and Business Practices at the Translation and Interpreting Institute at Bellevue College, Chair of the T&I Advisory Committee for the Puget Sound Skills Center (both in Washington State), member of both the ATA Advocacy Committee and the JNCL Advocacy Committee. When not at her computer, she can be found pursuing creative endeavors, from orchestra to the kitchen. You can follow her on Twitter @caitilinwalsh. 8:30-9:00 PST / 11:30-12:00 EST
Laura is a Professor and Dean of the Graduate School of Translation, Interpretation, and Language Education (GSTILE) at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey (MIIS).
After earning a MA in Chinese/ English Translation and Interpretation from MIIS, Professor Burian worked both in-house and freelance in Beijing before returning to MIIS to teach in 2000, where she has received several prestigious teaching awards. Her pedagogy aims to inspire her students to quickly become full partners in shaping the trajectory of their own professional and personal development.
She is a Mandarin/ English conference interpreter with a dynamic international portfolio of clients in both the public and private sector, and is a frequently invited guest speaker at conferences, workshops, and seminars worldwide. Her TEDx talk (co-presented with Barry Slaughter Olsen) is often used as a primer for students, teachers, and clients of interpretation, and earned a TED “Editor’s Pick” accolade in 2014. 9:00-9:05 PST / 12:00-12:05 EDT
9:05-10:05 EST / 12:05-13:05 EST
Valeria Barbero is Business Director for Mother Tongue (OMNICOM). Based out of New York, she heads one of the company's largest accounts and leads the business strategy in the US. She has worked in different verticals in the broader language service industry; from software localization, to the adaptation of marketing materials, to market and cultural insights. Lately she is leading a program on the linguistic and cultural adaptation of voice-first content. She has a strong academic background in International Relations and Geopolitics. Originally from Italy, her life and career have taken her to Ireland, India, Silicon Valley, London and now New York. 
Rafa holds a BA in Social Communications and majored in Journalism. She started working as a translator in 1997 and is certified by the American Translators Association (English > Portuguese) and by the University of California, San Diego Extension (Spanish > English), where she teaches classes on the role of technology in translation. Currently the President and CEO of Word Awareness, a small network of professional translators established in 2004 and incorporated in 2009, she specializes in technology, communications and literature. 
Lucía is Machine Translation Specialist at CPSL Language Services and affiliated teacher at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya. She holds a degree in Translation and Interpreting as well as in Humanities. With more than 20 years’ experience in the localization industry as a linguist and Project Manager, she is currently in charge of CPSL’s MT strategy. Her tasks include training and evaluating MT systems, designing custom-tailored MTPE workflows and training post-editors and CPSL’s staff on MTPE. She is an occasional speaker at events such as AMTA, Asling and GALA, and member of the GALA MTPE Training Initiative Steering Committee. 10:05-10:35 PST / 13:05-13:35 EST
10:35-11:05 PST / 13:35-14:05 EST
11:05-12:20 PST / 14:05-15:20 EST
Bruce is the CEO of Federal Compliance Consulting LLC, and nationally recognized for his compliance expertise concerning federal laws. Mr. Adelson is a former U.S Department of Justice Senior Attorney. During his Justice career, Mr. Adelson had national enforcement and policy responsibility. 
Carla has served as the System Director of Diversity Initiatives, Interpreter Services and ADA/504 and Section 1557 Coordinator for 35 hospitals in 9 different states for Steward Health Care. A registered nurse since 1988, Carla oversees the implementation of best practices across the Steward system including maximizing interpreter efficiency and creating diversity training programs. Carla’s experience as a trained medical interpreter and certified medical interpreter trainer afford her an interdisciplinary awareness of health care priorities. In 2015 Carla received her certification as an ADA Coordinator from the University of Missouri. 12:20-13:20 PST / 15:20-16:20 EST
Lorena Ortiz Schneider, CT is an ATA-certified Spanish>English translator (since 1996), an ATA-credentialed interpreter, and a California state-certified administrative hearing interpreter. She has worked for the U.S. Department of State as a liaison and seminar interpreter, as a conference interpreter for private industry, and as a community interpreter in mental health and workers’ compensation settings. She is also an interpreter trainer, a practicing translator and interpreter, and a business owner. She founded the Coalition of Practicing Translators and Interpreters of California, a nonpartisan nonprofit advocacy group. She was a board member of the California Workers’ Compensation Interpreters Association, interfacing with government agencies and state lawmakers to improve working conditions and pay for interpreters. Lorena is an ATA Director, CoPTIC America's founder, and on ATA’s Advocacy Committee. She has an MA in translation and conference interpreting from the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey. 
Scott is a Principal in the firm Employment Law and Litigation practice groups. He focuses his practice on advising and litigating construction, business, and employment disputes. He has experience in handling non-compete and trade secret disagreements, employment claims, issues concerning independent contractors, intellectual property infringement cases, complex construction issues, wage and overtime disputes, and breach of contract claims. Scott has over 20 years of experience representing individuals and businesses in diverse civil matters throughout Washington, DC region. Scott also represents numerous language services companies in issues arising out of the independent contractor relationship.
Scott’s practice covers the full spectrum of litigation services including pre-litigation counseling risk and litigation management trials, hearings, arbitrations, and appeals before federal and state courts, and has earned a reputation for being passionate about his clients’ cases and legal challenges. He has provided successful representation to small, midsize, and national clients. Because of his experience in commercial and employment litigation, Scott counsels clients in connection with employment agreements and routinely litigates non-compete cases. 
Linda has been a health worker for over 40 years. She is an interpreter trainer and community health activist. Before retirement, Linda managed the innovative Interpreter Services program at the University of Washington Medical Center, a division of UW Medicine. She was a commissioner with the Certification Commission for Healthcare Interpreters (CCHI), and served on the State of Washington DSHS LTC advisory board, which regulates the state certification of medical interpreters. 13:20-13:30 PST / 16:20-16:30 EST
13:30-14:30 PST / 16:30-17:30 EST
Jorge Mejia has been a professional interpreter for the last 15 years. He achieved certification through CCHI in 2015. Since then, Jorge has been enjoying working as a Spanish -English Healthcare interpreter. For the last six years, he has been working for Natividad Hospital in Salinas, CA. and has been able and work alongside a great team of interpreters at Natividad and currently is Lead Interpreter and a Licensed Trainer of The Community Interpreter program by Cross-Culture Communication. He has had the opportunity to train many dual-role hospital staff to become qualified interpreters. Here he has acquired many great experiences learning to work with underserved individuals. At Natividad, he has also had the opportunity to work and learn in adapting the interpreting profession to patients with an indigenous background. He is looking forward to continuing his career in such an essential role in the Healthcare Community. 14:30-15:30 PST / 17:30-18:30 EST
Danielle Meder is a nationally certified ASL interpreter with over 15 years in VRS and video remote interpreting as an interpreter and operations leader. She completed the Certificate in Healthcare Interpreting program at RIT-NTID in 2017 and has presented on the ethical application of VRI in medical settings, as well as published an article on the subject for Street Leverage in 2017. Danielle is currently the Director of Organizational Quality and Partner Support at Cloudbreak Health, a language access solutions agency that provides interpreting in over 200 languages via phone, video, and face-to-face. Danielle is a licensed interpreter trainer, and is passionate about advocating for quality and effective language access, supporting the advancement of interpreter training for spoken language interpreters, and supporting the communicative autonomy of all. 
Mireya has been a professional interpreter for over 10 years. She began her interpreting career as a certified medical interpreter after obtaining her certification from NBCMI. Currently, she works as a K-12 school district interpreter/translator in California, where she’s led the efforts in development of district-wide systems and procedures to help brand the role of the interpreter and translator in education. Mireya holds a Master’s of Science in Communications from Purdue University. In February 2020 she launched the Brand the Interpreter Podcast, a platform dedicated to assisting language professionals in telling their stories. 
15:30-15:35 PST / 18:30-18:35 EST
Jinny is the Executive Director of Linguist Education Online and the Founder of Bromberg & Associates, a Language Solutions Company, a WBE and DBE certified business and holder of the GSA Federal Supply Schedule award. Jinny is the first court-certified Russian Interpreter in Michigan, Corp Magazine’s Most Valuable Professional awardee and a passionate advocate for language access for all. To improve quality of interpreting services worldwide she developed Linguist Education Online training platform in 2009 and has grown it into a cutting edge globally known organization. Jinny’s strongest quality is tenacity. She is a workaholic whose favorite thing about her job is having never-ending opportunities to learn, as well as seeing the passion of people in this industry. RID: 0,7 CEUs.
Healthcare: 7 CCHI CE hours and 8.75 contact hours = .875 IMIA/NBCMI CEUs.
Court: 7 CEUs with CO, MD, MI, NC and PA, 0.7 CEUs with KY and NE, 9.5 CEUs with MO and NM, 1 Ethics CEU and 4 general CEUs with OR.
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