The ATA Chronicle - September/October 2017 - 6

NEW CERTIFIED MEMBERS

ATA SOCIAL MEDIA

Congratulations!

Bridging Other Gaps

The following people have successfully
passed ATA's certification exam:
English into Portuguese
Beatriz Baker Meio
Takoma Park, MD
English into Spanish
Aimée Valckx Gutiérrez
Querétaro, Mexico
Rosalia Sanchez-Rodriguez
Carmel, IN
Hector Vicencio
Mexico City, Mexico
German into English
Mikhael A. Abi-Saleh
Johnson City, TN
Portuguese into English
Liam Gallagher
São Paulo, Brazil
Tracy S. Miyake
Curitiba, Brazil
Elizabeth M. Herron-Sweet
São Paulo, Brazil

FROM OUR MEMBERS

In the field known as translation studies,
much has been written about the gap
between "academia" (scholarship and
training) and "practice" (the professional
or industry side of translation). As
an expert translation practitioner and
translation studies student/novice
scholar, I'm deeply troubled by this
unfortunate separation.
This is why I've followed with
great interest and excitement the
development of ATA's Educators
Division (http://ataeducatorsdivision.
org), and want to take this opportunity to
recognize ATA's efforts toward bridging this
"gap." I also want to express my sincerest
appreciation to the Board and conference
organizers for the quality guest speakers
they're bringing to the conference every year.
In addition, I not only want to
encourage, but humbly ask translation/
interpreting professionals who are not
normally involved in scholarship or
research to attend at least one of the
"Education and Training" sessions at the
upcoming conference. Your input and
participation is much more important to
researchers than you can possibly realize.
(And if you decide to attend one of these

sessions and happen to see my name
badge, please come say hello so I can
thank you in person.)
It's my sincerest hope that these and
future initiatives will successfully bring
the "academic" and "professional" worlds
closer together so that scholars can
continue to produce knowledge that
is informed by (and is useful to) what
practitioners do on a daily basis.
Celeste Klein Malone | Akron, Ohio
Expanding Your Business: Genealogical
Translation | Corey Oiesen and Bryna O'Sullivan

Thank you for the article on genealogical
translation in the May-June issue. I loved
all the information you shared! I've
been translating mostly for direct clients
who are either looking for their Italian
citizenship or researching their Italian
roots. I've been doing this for about two
years full-time now. My first client was
a professor doing research on an Italian
fellow born in Italy in the 1800s-in my
own town. I loved going to the church
and leafing through those old, dusty, and
fascinating records! Your article gave me
more ideas and renewed energy to look
for additional work in this field. Thanks!
Manuela Francavilla | Madison, Wisconsin

FROM THE PRESIDENT
Continued from page 2
with the flexibility we need to shape the
future and chart a path forward.
NOTES
1
U.S. Census County Business Patterns,
bit.ly/US-Census-business.
2

Occupation Outlook Handbook (Bureau of
Labor Statistics), bit.ly/Occupation-Outlook.

3

Global Talent Program Survey, Joint
National Committee for Languages-National
Council for Languages and International
Studies (Globalization and Localization
Association), April 2014.

4

Rogers, Kate. "As the Earth Feels Ever
Smaller, Demand for Translators and
Interpreters Skyrockets (CNBC, July 7,
2017), http://bit.ly/translators-interpreters.

5

Rogers, Kate. "Where the Jobs Are:
Translators" (PBS Nightly Business Report,
July 10, 2017), bit.ly/PBS-translators-jobs.

6

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