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Can Translation Be the Only Route?

December 17, 2025
A new NAJIT member reflects on the uncertainty of stepping into an established professional community and asks how others found connection, confidence, and belonging within NAJIT.

The Couch: New Member to NAJIT

December 10, 2025
New to NAJIT? A recent graduate asks how to begin networking and getting involved in the judiciary interpreting profession. Members are invited to share advice.
Categories

Advocacy

ASL

Athena Matilsky

Attorney Education

Business Practices

Certification

Community

Community Interpreting

Conference Interpreting

Continuing Education

Court Interpreting

Equipment

Ethics

Fiction

Finances

Gladys Matthews

Hilda Zavala-Shymanik

Idioms

Immigration

Interpreters

Interpreting

Janis Palma

Jiraporn Ann Huynh

Jules Lapprand

Julli Jaramillo

Language

Language Associations

Leadership

Leadership

LOTS

Medical Interpreting

Mentoring

NAJIT Academy

NAJIT Affairs

NAJIT Conference

New Ideas

Nutrition

Odds & Ends

Past Posts

Personal Growth

Professional Development

Professional Hazard

Professional Practices

Recent Posts

Reme Bashi

Remote Interpreting

Self care

Technology

Terminology

The Profession

Tools of the trade

TRAINING

Translation

Uncategorized

Urszula Bunting

Volunteer

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