Your advocacy matters, now more than ever. It isn’t just about language; it’s about empowerment.
As an interpreter, you’re more than a voice – you’re a critical link to justice and care. For individuals with limited English proficiency (LEP), due process, health outcomes, and fundamental rights often hang in the balance. This is where your advocacy becomes essential.
Advocacy isn’t just for Capitol Hill. It’s the everyday act of an interpreter challenging a harmful practice, a provider questioning an unfair policy, or a team pushing for vital resources. Through compelling case studies, you’ll learn how to act in the moment and ensure lasting impact.
Join our interactive workshop designed specifically to equip you with the practical tools and unwavering confidence needed to advocate effectively. Whether you’re navigating a new challenge or looking to sharpen your influence, you’ll gain strategies that make a real difference.
In this workshop, you will:
- Forge Your Personalized Advocacy Action Plan: Walk away with a tailored roadmap, ready to implement your advocacy goals across various contexts.
- Clarify Your Role and Influence: Gain a precise understanding of your current responsibilities and how you can powerfully leverage them to drive change.
- Navigate Every Level of Advocacy: Identify and apply advocacy strategies at the individual, institutional, and systemic levels, maximizing your reach and impact.
- Connect the Critical Dots: Develop a profound grasp of the inextricable link between language access, effective advocacy, and the fundamental right to due process.
- Influence Key Decision-Makers: Master the art of communicating persuasively and effectively with officials and decision-makers, ensuring your voice – and the voices you represent – are heard.
About the Presenter
Carol Velandia is a nationally recognized advocate for language access and plain language. As founder and CEO of Equal Access Language Services, she created the award-winning “Effective Inclusion Through Language Access” program to enhance language service delivery across sectors. She’s the creator and host of the Language Access Matters podcast, featured on Podbean and Spotify, and has been featured in the She Leads & Empowers and Boostlingo podcasts, as well as Nimdzi Live. In 2025, she was named one of the World’s Top Healthcare Leaders by All Around Worlds. Carol contributes to MultiLingual magazine and is passionate about replacing language-based discrimination with inclusive systems. In her free time, she learns new languages, travels, and dances flamenco.
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