Letter from the Chair

By: Guest

Issue: 2018 Summer Volume XXXI Issue No 1

By Aimee Benavides Dear colleagues, In my first letter as Chair, I would like to thank all of our members for their care and consideration in the recent elections. I am very grateful and humbled to have the opportunity to serve with my fellow board...

Call for Volunteers

By: Guest

Issue: 2018 Summer Volume XXXI Issue No 1

NAJIT is calling on members to volunteer to serve on a committee. Most of the ongoing work of NAJIT is performed through committees that have been created to help in the advancement of the association and the legal translation and interpretation professions. It is a great...

2018 NAJIT Scholar Testimonials

By: Guest

Issue: 2018 Summer Volume XXXI Issue No 1

2018 NAJIT Scholars Ivonne Camacho – UC San Diego Extension Luz Gallegos – John Jay College of Criminal Justice William Giller – Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey Sonia Rincón – American University Ivonne Camacho My name is Ivonne Camacho and live in Lexington, KY....

2018 Conference Roundup

By: Guest

Issue: 2018 Summer Volume XXXI Issue No 1

By Athena Matilsky This past June found me in San Francisco on the weekend of June 9th. I was lucky enough to be there, along with 356 other language professionals, to attend NAJIT’s 39th annual conference. The weather was brilliant and the city beckoned. But...

Links of Interest

By: Guest

Issue: 2018 Summer Volume XXXI Issue No 1

Hanged After a Trial He Couldn’t Understand, and Pardoned 136 years later West Springfield police shouldn't have used college intern as a Russian interpreter, Massachusetts court rules Demand in the US for Legal and Healthcare Interpreters Gets Increasing Media Attention

For Better or Verse – Driven

By: Guest

Issue: 2018 Summer Volume XXXI Issue No 1

By Hal Sillers Driven Since we drive, drove and have driven To reach the places that we live in, Logic says we must arrive, arrove and have arriven. And as we strive, strove and have striven, To organize the world God has given, We’re obliged...

NAJIT Spotlight: Interview of Dr. Dave Gilbert

By: Guest

Issue: 2018 Summer Volume XXXI Issue No 1

By Proteus Staff Dr. David Gilbert Dr. Gilbert is a graduate of the Australian Defence Force School of Languages and is currently an accredited professional Vietnamese translator. He served with the Royal Australian Navy as a cryptologic linguist participating in numerous US-Australia military operations before...

A Public Servant Finds His Way from Despair to Hope to Promise

By: Guest

Issue: 2018 Summer Volume XXXI Issue No 1

By José A. Navarrete I am a full-time Spanish/English staff court interpreter/translator at the Santa Barbara Superior Court on California’s central coast performing linguistic tasks daily for criminal/civil judges, attorneys, court staff and the community at large. After a successful start as an independent contractor...

Is There Such a Thing as a “Best Rate” in the Translation Industry?

By: Guest

Issue: 2018 Summer Volume XXXI Issue No 1

By Rafa Lombardino Have you ever received an email from a client asking for your resume and your “best rate”? Do you have a number you would consider a “best rate”? Is there, in fact, such a thing? Most requests I receive from potential clients,...

Letter from the Editor Summer 2018

By: Arianna Aguilar

Issue: 2018 Summer Volume XXXI Issue No 1

Letter from the Editor: Proteus 2018 Summer Volume XXXI Issue No 1 By Arianna M. Aguilar It is hot, isn’t it? Why don’t you take a break from the summer heat to read the most current issue of Proteus. Many of you attended the NAJIT conference...