Blog Post
Mentoring an up and coming interpreter
Kaliah and I met in 2020 through the St. Louis Hillman Scholars Program, becoming the first translation industry mentor for an aspiring interpreter for this particular program.
Kaliah, an incoming freshman at Loyola in New Orleans, has a strong desire for a career in interpretation. Despite Covid restrictions, we communicated via Zoom and met in person when she visited her home = St. Louis.
During our last meeting, she shared her excitement about leaving for a study abroad exchange program in Buenos Aires, Argentina, but expressed her nervousness about communicating in Spanish. I encouraged her, saying that immersing herself in the language was the best way to learn it fluently.