While our mission to create and enhance access through interpreting relies on interpreters, the unstated reality is that not all interpreters are created equal.  Each of us brings knowledge and skill to the job, but that doesn't make each of us equally qualified to interpret in all settings.

Our first projects are up and running.  They focus on interpreters with the goal of uniting us in thinking and working together to provide excellent service.  They include the following:

• Project: Medical Interpreting Consortium (MIC).  An online-based organization of freelance interpreters who dedicate a significant portion of their time working in medical environments.  A resource center for the medical community that is a consortium of independent professionals. 

• Project: Team Environment.  Consulting services to interpreting agencies or entities that employ a steady flow of interpreters working together.  Emphasis is placed on identifying and learning to use tools that actually help interpreters to be effective team players.

   

Projects underway include:

• Project: The Self-employed Interpreter Network.  Like the Medical Interpreting Consortium, the Self-employed Interpreter Network (SeIN) will be an online resource for areas around the country looking for interpreters.  The website provides an opportunity for contracting generalist interpreters through direct hire, cutting costs for the client by eliminating the middle-man.

• Project: Collective Dialogue (CD).  This is an independent study program that interpreters undertake as a small group of colleauges.  By learning specific techniques and approaches incorporating dialogic based elements, interpreters find out much more about their own thinking processes as they discover what influences their interpreting.  This project entails group work as a catalyst to learning, but also requires individual assignments to complete the project.