Board Meetings and Monthly MeetingsNB: Both NETA board meetings and NETA monthly meetings are held virtually via Zoom. NETA board meetings are held four times a year, generally in September, January, March, and June. Final dates, times, locations, and agendas are announced in advance via email. Attendance Policy: Board meeting dates for 2024-25: September 28, January 25, March 22, and June 14. General meetings are usually held once a month from September through April on Saturday afternoons. The fee is $25 for nonmembers. 2024-25 September 21: 19th Annual Translation Bash - virtual, with Zoom rooms, 1:30-4:30 Log into our website, tell us your language pair, and receive a copy of this year's English source passage. Translate that passage at your convenience before bash day, and join in as we debate the ins and outs of each sentence. We'll have a facilitator in place for English>Spanish, English>Portuguese, and English>French. If you work into another language and would like to participate on September 30, indicate that when you register. We'll keep a tally. If a given group is large enough, we will attempt to find a facilitator. Smaller groups and pairs can readily work on their own. NB: This year we will have Spanish>English and French>English reverse bash group, which will work on a passage on the same theme as that of the English source text that the majority of participants will be discussing.
Our speaker, Lisa Walker, graduated from Northern Essex Community College in 1986 with an AS in Interpreting for the Deaf. She worked for several years as a staff interpreter at the New England Home for the Deaf in Danvers before going on to become a Physician Assistant (PA) and educator, working for the past 26 years teaching the next generation of PAs. As a longtime advocate of language access, Lisa has designed medical interpreting curricula, presented on a wide range of topics for interpreters and health professional, and serves on the board of Found in Translation, a nonprofit organization providing training for bilingual refugee and immigrant women as medical interpreters.
Our speaker. Natasha Hakimi Zapata, is an award-winning journalist, translator and university lecturer based in London, England. Her book, ANOTHER WORLD IS POSSIBLE: Lessons for America from Around the Globe is forthcoming from The New Press (February 2025), and her articles appear regularly The Nation, In These Times, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and elsewhere. Hakimi Zapata has been a lecturer at Boston University and the University of Massachusetts Boston, where she taught in the Translation Certificate Program for several years, including a graduate level course on Translation in Media. In 2014 she collaborated on The Transborder Immigrant Tool Book published by the University of Michigan press, and in 2016 Literal Publishing released full-length bilingual editions of her translation of Alicia Borinsky's My Husband's Woman and Liliana Lukin's Theater of Operations. She is the former foreign editor of Truthdig and has received several Southern California Journalism and National Arts & Entertainment Journalism awards, most recently in 2024 for her work as a foreign correspondent. December 14: Annual holiday party in Woburn, MA January 18: How to Gain a Lasting Edge with Generative AI and Get Back to Everything You Love about Being a Translator, 4:00-6:00 The proper use of Generative AI allows translators to achieve higher productivity than ever before. Learn a methodology for pushing the AI to the frontier of its capabilities, techniques for accelerating your prompts for higher efficiency, how to make the AI translate in your voice, and ways to safeguard your data and save money. Our speaker, Steven S. Bammel, PhD, is a Korean-to-Engish techncal translator with over 20 years of experience. Having a background in Strategic Management from Hanyang University (Korea) and in Economics (from the University of Texas at Arlington (USA), Steven combines his language and translation expertise with a deep knowledge of AI workflow to develop tools and frameworks that help translators raise their productivity. As an active member of the American Translators Association (ATA), Steven still translates daily.
Our speaker, Kelly Varguez, is a seasoned professional with 15 years of experience interpreting in state and federal courts, combined wit 25 years as an educator. In addition to managing her busy practice, Kelly mentors and trains aspiring court interpreters while actively advocating for the interpreting profession in her region. March 15: Mental Health Treatment: Trauma and Implications for the Medical Interpreting Process, 2:00-4:00 During this informational session we will explore how trauma and related emotions manifest during the medical interpreting process, affecting not only the clinical encounter, but also the medical interpreter. We will focus on Mood Disorders and PTSD. Participants will be able to define transference (clients' feelings/reactions) and countertransference (therapists' feelings/reactions) and understand their implications for the therapeutic relationship, as well as their impact on the medical interpreter, therapist and client alike. We will also discuss the interrelatedness of Major Depression and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, presenting the symptoms characteristic of each disorder, their diagnostic definitions and their connection to interpersonal trauma. The centrality of acculturation and its implications for assessment and treatment will be emphasized through the workshop. Our speaker, Maria del Mar Farina, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor and former MSW Program Director at Westfield State University, Adjunct Professor at Smith College School for Social Work, and Adjunct Associate Professor at Columbia University School of Social Work. She maintains a practice working with the Latino community. Her research pertains to American Immigration policy, immigrant integration, nativist discourse and white power groups.
Our speaker, Elena Langdon, is the Professional Development Manager for the Office of Language Access at the Massachusetts Trial Court, responsible for recruiting, onboarding and training court interpreters for the state. She has been a Portuguese-English interpreter and translator since 2011. She is certified by the American Translators Associate (Portuguese into English translation) and holds an M.A .in Translation Studies from UMass Amherst. Elena has been teaching interpreting and translation since 2005 at various institutions. She has been on the board of directors of the ATA, the New England Translators Association and the National Board of Certification for Medical Interpreters. 2023-24 September 30: 18th Annual Translation Bash - virtual, with Zoom rooms, 1:30-4:30 Log into our website, tell us your language pair, and receive a copy of this year's English source passage. Translate that passage at your convenience before bash day, and join in as we debate the ins and outs of each sentence. We'll have a facilitator in place for English>Spanish, English>Portuguese, and English>French. If you work into another language and would like to participate on September 30, indicate that when you register. We'll keep a tally. If a given group is large enough, we will attempt to find a facilitator. Smaller groups and pairs can readily work on their own. NB: This year we will have Spanish>English and French>English reverse bash group, which will work on a passage on the same theme as that of the English source text that the majority of participants will be discussing.
Our speaker, Janis Palma, is an English-Spanish interpreter and translator with more than 40 years of experience. She has worked as an independent contractor for private attorneys, government agencies, state and federal courts, and worked a s a staff and supervisory interpreter for the U.S. District Court in Puerto Rico.
Our panelists, Milena Calerari-Waldron, Rudy Téllez, and Helen Eby are al leaders in their field and have extensive experience advocating for interpreters in institutional, state and federal contexts with a significant record of success. December 9: Annual holiday party in Woburn, MA January 20: Implicit Bias and Racism in American Health Care: Our Roles and Responsibilities as Interpreters, 2:00-4:00 This interactive workshop will engage participants in an exploration of the history of racism, stereotyping, and bias in the American health care system. We will identify strategies to uncover and reduce one's own implicit biases and consider our role as interpreters in recognizing and addressing racism and bias when we encounter it in our work. Our speaker, Lisa Walker, graduated from Northern Essex Community College in 1986 with an AS in Interpreting for the Deaf. She worked for several years as a staff interpreter at the New England Home for the Deaf in Danvers before going on to become a Physician Assistant (PA) and educator, working for the past 26 years teaching the next generation of PAs. As a longtime advocate of language access, Lisa has designed medical interpreting curricula, presented on a wide range of topics for interpreters and health professional, and serves on the board of Found in Translation, a nonprofit organization providing training for bilingual refugee and immigrant women as medical interpreters.
Our speaker, Barbara Inge Karsch, is the owner of BIK Terminology, a terminology consultancy and training company. Since 2010, she has been providing terminology development, training and consulting for Adobe, Facebook, Intuit, Zeiss and others. She draws on her extensive experience in-house for Microsoft and JD Edwards. Barbara completed a BA and MA in translation and interpretation and has done PhD-level research in terminology science. She is Adjunct Professor at New York University and teaches regularly at the Middlebury Institute at Monterey. As US delegate to ISO TC37, Barbara led the recently published revision of ISO 12616:I Terminology work in support of multilingual communication--Part 1: Fundamentals of translation-oriented terminography. Barbara has dual citizenship from Germany and the United States.
Our speaker, Mali Sastri, is a registered Voice Movement Therapy practitioner based in Boston. She trained with VMT founder Paul Newham, and with Anne Brownell and Christine Isherwood in London, UK from 1999-2001. In 2011 she qualified as a professional member of the International Association for Voice Movement Therapy. Mali has worked with individuals and groups primarily in the Boston area for over 15 years. For 10 years she was part of the music education program at Tunefoolery, a Boston nonprofit for musicians in mental health recovery. Her work rides the edge between the artistic and therapeutic, with an emphasis on breath and the song-as-container. She herself is a singer, songwriter, composer, performer, and artist-practitioner--a forever student and lover of voice.
Our speaker, Esther Bonin, is ACSI's Director of Language Services. She is an international language industry expert with over 20 years of experience. She holds a degree in Translation & Interpreting Skills from Univeritat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, Spain, and an MA in International Relations from Durham University in Durham, England. She has worked on both sides of the Atlantic as a certified translator and interpreter, a professor, and a language access consultant. Recently she has led interpretation programs for a language service company in Arlington, VA, where she was responsible for all commercial and government interpreting programs. She has also led a team of over 75 interpreters and translators for a large Massachusetts hospital system. Esther is recognized as a thought leader in the areas of language access, D& I, and interpreter training. A conference and community interpreter herself, with experience in media, legal , healthcare and educational settings, she has worked for commercial, government and nonprofit clients directly, and as a program manager overseeing contract execution and deliverables.
Our speaker, Holly Silvestri, is the Senior Coordinator for Translation, Training and Curriculum for the National Center for Interpretation at the University of Arizona. She has also taught for the Translation and Interpretation Program within the Spanish and Portuguese Department, which offers a bachelor's degree in Spanish with a concentration in translation and interpreting. She has experience in the fields of translation and interpreting as well as training interpreters and is a member of the National Language Service Corps. Her working languages are Spanish, French and English. She also runs her own LSP business. |
