Seeking Spanish-to-English interpreter (by zoom) for Argentinian meeting

October 7, 2020 8:34 PM

I'm hosting a virtual meeting with several monolingual Spanish speakers from Argentina later this month, and several monolingual English speakers from the US. As long as we're all on Zoom, we'd love to hire a Spanish-to-English interpretation service who will use Zoom's fancy translation features. Ideally, we'd find folks who would make our Argentinian attendees comfortable. This is for higher ed, but for a conversation about labor law, so bonus points for anyone who may have familiarity with legal/organizing terminology / pro-worker politics. We've got one lead, but need to sort this out sooner than later, so would love to have a few backups. Any suggestions?
posted by rdn to Writing & Language (2 answers total)

Maybe this? http://antenalosangeles.org/
I've only seen these folks in live settings and were super impressed. It was for a bicycle community conference in Mexico which included diverse topics, and there were attendees from Argentina. Sorry, I do not know how much they're familiar with legal/organizing terminology / pro-worker politics. They often do "solidarity work with autonomous community groups", and it looks like their staff often do work related to social justice.
posted by dogstoevski at 2:26 AM on October 8, 2020 [2 favorites]

You could use a search of the American Translators Association directory as a starting point, or a list of state or federal certified court interpreters.
posted by abeja bicicleta at 10:32 AM on October 8, 2020 [1 favorite]