19 Nov The Day of the Dead: El Día de Muertos – A Lesson in Adapting to Change
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The Day of the Dead: El Día de Muertos – A Lesson in Adapting to Change By Reme Bashi If you are unfamiliar with El Día de Muertos [Day of the Dead], it’s all about honoring, celebrating and remembering loved ones who have left...
05 Nov It’s Always a Good Day to Make New Friends
It’s Always a Good Day to Make New Friends By: The NAJIT Observer Meet NAJIT’s new Publishing Coordinator and Editor-In-Chief, Julli Jaramillo. Her C.V. will tell you that she graduated from New York University with a Master’s in Translation, specializing in Spanish-to-English and legal translation....
24 Oct Something We Never Talk About
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There’s something we never want to talk about. Not unless it comes knocking on our door. But lately, it’s been knocking on many people’s doors, people I know, people I don’t know, one right after the other: mothers, fathers, leaving us grown children orphaned and...
13 Aug A history of the code of ethics for judiciary interpreters
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Let me begin with a disclaimer: documentation about the early codes of ethics for judiciary interpreters, also called codes of professional responsibility, is scant or lost altogether. I am writing mostly from memory and some documents I have been able to track down, which means...
01 Jul One more reason why the judiciary interpreters code of professional responsibility needs to be revised
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The United States District Courts and Circuit Courts of Appeal have said time and again very clearly that Limited English Proficient (LEP) criminal defendants have a right to understand. This is the only reason for interpreters to have a significant place in the U.S. system...
30 Mar NAJIT’s 45th Annual Conference
I came to the profession as many of you did, if you started your interpreting career ten or more years ago. I had a 15-minute phone interview with an agency owner, and I was hired on the spot and given very few instructions. I started...