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Black Lives Matter. It is personal.
This is a guest post by my daughter, Cynthia Sleight. I had been thinking of the current protests, and the people my children were friends with as children. She emailed me this text, and I [...]
Language Access: Essential for a United Community
I gave this presentation to the Hillsboro Chamber of Commerce on June 5, 2020, in the context of the civil rights protests. In that presentation, I put language access, which includes translation and interpreting, in [...]
Gaucha Translations is about quality language access
Now that things are in flux because of COVID-19, my husband and I are talking a lot. He asked me what is at the core of what drives me, my passion. Developing quality language access [...]
A language access timeline for interpreting on the West Coast
Interpreting is a professional field. What was once done by whoever was bilingual now has an established certification process. There are less and less reasons to work with unvetted providers. This timeline tells the story [...]
Volunteering in professional associations
I am running for office in NAJIT, the National Association of Judiciary Interpreters and Translators. The elections page has the details. Why? I believe in professional associations. They are our point of reference, where stakeholders [...]
We are in this together: Gaucha COVID-19 discounts
As a partner in language access, Gaucha Translations has seen how the community is stretched in all directions. The lack of parking fees are stretching budgets for cities, the lack of ability to provide routine [...]