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09 Jan

Posted at 15:26h in Advocacy, Attorney Education, Business Practices, Conference Interpreting, Equipment, Ethics, Hilda Zavala-Shymanik, Interpreting, Leadership, Professional Development, Professional Hazard, Professional Practices, Terminology, Tools of the trade by
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During the first NAJIT event I ever attended, the 35th Annual Conference in Las Vegas in the spring of 2014, my friend Gerda Prato introduced me to Tony Rosado. I was so excited that I still have the picture. I already knew who Tony was from reading...

19 Dec

Posted at 12:20h in Business Practices, Certification, Community, Court Interpreting, Interpreters, Janis Palma, Language Associations, NAJIT Affairs, Odds & Ends, Recent Posts, The Profession, Volunteer by
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I know it may seem like a tired old cliché but, come on! You have to agree with me: it has been a great year! For me it was a year of enormous challenges chairing the NAJIT Board of Directors during the first half, and...

12 Dec

Posted at 18:12h in Certification, Continuing Education, Court Interpreting, Hilda Zavala-Shymanik, Language, Professional Development, Recent Posts by
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I first heard about the University of Arizona’s Court Interpreter Training Institute (CITI) program at NAJIT’s 35th Annual Conference in Las Vegas in 2012. Some colleagues were talking about it while we had lunch. They shared information and spoke highly of the program, so I...

08 Dec

Posted at 12:02h in Advocacy, Attorney Education, Business Practices, Community, Continuing Education, Court Interpreting, Interpreters, Leadership, NAJIT Affairs, Professional Practices, Recent Posts, The Profession, TRAINING by
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Oh, no! It happened again. A client insulted you. They had a non-native, non-translator correct your work and asked for a refund. They asked you to volunteer to interpret out of the goodness of your heart.  Maybe it wasn’t intentional, or maybe it was. Perhaps it...

15 Nov

Posted at 11:34h in Athena Matilsky, Business Practices, Ethics, Interpreters, Language, Leadership, Personal Growth, Professional Development, Recent Posts, Technology, TRAINING by
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During the first pandemic winter, I took on one of the hardest teaching assignments I’ve ever experienced: I tutored the son of a dear friend of mine with his fifth-grade homework. He was struggling a lot, and there were concerns that he might not be...

07 Nov

Posted at 15:07h in Advocacy, Business Practices, Court Interpreting, Ethics, Immigration, Interpreting, Janis Palma, Language, Recent Posts, Technology, The Profession by
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“The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new” —Socrates Jon Leeth was the Special Assistant to the Assistant Director in Charge of Court Reporting and Interpreting Services, also referred to as Chief of the...