SUMMARY

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• Fluent in spoken and written Spanish and English

• M.A. in Latin American Studies, B.A. in Spanish and Ancient Greek

• Ten+ years experience as a Spanish teacher, editor and researcher

• 100 hours of medical interpreter training Spanish<>English

• Community and Solidarity Language Justice Interpreter, LA & online since 2019; Interpreter for Program for Torture Victims, Los Angeles, 2015-2020

• Translation, editing and proofreading in Spanish and English since 2014

• Lived in Ecuador; worked and traveled in Colombia and Peru

• Taught Spanish and Latin American Studies at Ohio University and in Ecuador

• Directed Study Abroad in Ecuador program, Ohio University

• Teaching and research assistant in Cultural and Literary Studies; Religion, Gender and Sexuality; Expressive Arts Therapies; Latin American Studies

• Professional dancer with Navarasa Dance Theater since 2012; ongoing training in martial arts (Kalari ppayattu), Indian classical dance (Bharatanatyam), yoga, contemporary dance and theater

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EDUCATION

 

Ohio University

M.A. Latin American Studies

Thesis: "La división del mundo entre los que se rehúsan a ser comprendidos y los que buscan darse a entender sin que esto les aporte privilegio alguno: Vindication of Land and Reason in Saraguro, Ecuador"

summa cum laude

 

B.A. Spanish and Ancient Greek

summa cum laude

 

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

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• Ongoing PD through Linguist Education Online, Editorial Difusión and other organizations in LA and online

• AATSP Conference, San Diego, Jul 2019

• Bread Loaf Translators Residency, Middlebury College, Jun 2018

• Member, American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese

• Member, American Literary Translators' Association

• Indigenous Knowledge and the Making of Colonial Latin America, Conference, Getty Center, Los Angeles, 2017

• Certificate in Interpreting for HIV/AIDS Health Care Providers, 40 hours, 2014

• Certificate in Foundations in Medical Interpreting Program from Harvard Pilgrim HealthCare Foundation, 60 hours, 2012

• InterpretAmerica Summit, Monterey, CA, 2015

• Women in Black International Conference, Bogotá, Colombia, 2011

• International Expressive Arts Therapies Conference, Lima, Perú, 2011

• Ohio Latin Americanist Conference, Athens, OH, presenter 2008, 2009, 2010

• TEFL Certified (Teaching English as a Second Language), CEDEI, Ecuador, 2006