16 Jul Message from the Chair
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This message from the NAJIT Chair was originally published in the 2021 summer issue of Proteus, NAJIT’s Quarterly Newsletter. Dear NAJIT Members: For those of you who don’t know me, let me tell you a little bit about myself. I have been a member of...
21 May When your long-standing assumptions are shattered: What now?
Posted at 13:29h
in Court Interpreting, Interpreting, Janis Palma, Odds & Ends, Professional Practices, Recent Posts, The Profession
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Has it ever happened to you that there is something you have believed all your life, something you have never even considered questioning, and then out of nowhere you see something or hear someone say something that makes you feel like your brain has been...
14 May What’s your story?
As a translator and interpreter, language and words are my passion. I suppose it’s not really a surprise that I find myself drawn to writing. A few years ago, the little voice inside me telling me to write grew more insistent. I had been blogging...
23 Apr Virtually Impossible? The Opposite is True!
Posted at 12:45h
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If I had been told a year ago that NAJIT’s Conference Committee would be organizing a remote event, I would not have believed it. The virtualization of “virtually” everything around us caught us all by surprise. It is a well-known fact that humans by our...
16 Apr Embracing our Mother Tongue’s Diversity
I was born Puerto Rican. I was actually born in New York, but that doesn’t make me a New Yorker any more than being born in Hawaii or Japan makes my cousins Hawaiian or Japanese just because their military parents happened to be stationed there...