Board Meeting Highlights
From the Executive Director Walter Bacak, CAE walter@atanet.org The ATA Board of Directors met November 5–6, 2016 in conjunction with the Annual Conference in…
ATA at the California Federation of Interpreters 2016 Conference
The 2016 California Federation of Interpreters (CFI) Conference was held on October 7–9 in Los Angeles, California. CFI is a large and highly visible…
6 Handy Web Design Tools for Small Businesses
With so much business being done online, a slick and well functioning website should be key to your online presence. In recent years, many…
The Man Who Beat Magellan in the Race Around the Globe
Could the first man to circumnavigate the globe actually have been an interpreter? Most people think of Ferdinand Magellan as the Portuguese explorer who…
The Value of Volunteering
In my last column I wrote about the benefits of a diverse membership at ATA to provide a wide variety of experience and skills…
ATA’s Annual Conference: Looking Back and Looking Ahead
As I write this, we’re one week out from the early registration deadline for ATA57 in San Francisco, and all signs point to an…
Credentialed Interpreter Recognition, Your Directory Profile, and More
Credentialed Interpreter Debuted: While ATA does not test interpreters, we have looked for ways to recognize their hard-earned credentials in ATA’s Directory of Translators…
Rika Mitrik Wins 2015–2016 ATA School Outreach Contest
Rika Mitrik, a Japanese<>English interpreter and ATA-certified English>Japanese translator, won a free registration to ATA’s 57th Annual Conference in San Francisco, California, through ATA’s…
An Interview with Radd Ehrman, Classical Philologist
As translators, we are familiar with the concept of picking a word apart to grasp its meaning. We refer to glossaries and dictionaries to…
Three Crazy Ideas about Translation Standards
I’m a big fan of standardization! That’s why I’ve been using international standards in my classroom for almost 10 years. I believe that a…
Benefits of a Diverse Crew
From the President David Rumsey president@atanet.org Twitter handle: @davidcrumsey I managed to squeeze in an afternoon on a friend’s sailboat on a rare, non-working weekend a…
Making the Most of ATA57
From the President-Elect Corinne McKay corinne@translatewrite.com Twitter handle: @corrinemckay Whether you’re attending ATA’s Annual Conference for the first or the 40th time, you’ll want to…