Featured Speakers (session details here)

Judy Jenner is a Spanish and German conference interpreter and federally certified Spanish court interpreter in the United States. She has an MBA in marketing from the University of Nevada-Las Vegas and a master’s degree in conference interpreting from Glendon College at York University in Canada, and she runs her boutique translation and interpreting business, Twin Translations, with her twin sister Dagmar. She was born in Austria and grew up in Mexico City. She writes the blog Translation Times and the "Entrepreneurial Linguist" column for The ATA Chronicle, serves as one of the ATA spokespersons, and teaches interpretation at New York University, the University of California-San Diego, and the University of Nevada-Las Vegas. She is the co-author of The Entrepreneurial Linguist: The Business-School Approach to Freelance Translation. She is a frequent speaker at T&I conferences around the world. Judy flies a lot for her interpreting assignments and one of her special talents is memorizing airport codes.

Mark C. Chow was the first Asian American to win election to a Washington District Court seat, and he served seven four-year terms before retiring in 2022. Among his diverse accomplishments, Judge Chow presided over one of the nation’s first Mental Health Courts, a pioneering program that safely reduced criminalization of the mentally ill and has now been implemented in over 364 U.S. jurisdictions. Judge Chow was also instrumental in developing the first educational curriculum on gender and diversity issues for Washington State judges, now institutionalized within the State’s Judicial College.

Judge Chow is a recipient of the President’s Award from the Asian Bar Association and the Washington State Psychiatric Association’s Randy Revelle Lifetime Achievement Award. But his biggest claim to fame is that “He’s Ruby Chow’s best-looking son" and that Bruce Lee lived with his family when he stayed in Seattle.

Helen Eby is a certified English into Spanish and Spanish into English translator, a certified court interpreter, and a certified health care interpreter. She was a medical school student at the University of Buenos Aires for two years, where she covered anatomy, physiology, embryology, histology, physics and chemistry. This has equipped her with a unique and undeniable mastery of medical terminology. She graduated from the Escuela Nacional en Lenguas Vivas as a teacher of English and Spanish. One of her major interests is supporting translators and interpreters. She has established training programs for medical interpreting and translation in Oregon and provided training at national and local conferences for over 10 years.

Judit Marin is a full-time staff interpreter at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, Washington. Previously, she worked as a freelance interpreter, translator, and trainer in California. She teaches translation and interpreting courses at Evergreen Valley College in California. She holds the following certifications: ATA-certified (English>Spanish) translator, CCHI Spanish, and California Certified Medical Interpreter. She holds an M.A. in Spanish from U.C. Santa Barbara and a Catalan Philology B.A from the University of Barcelona, Spain. She received the Interpreter of the Year Award from the California Healthcare Interpreting Association (CHIA) at their annual conference in 2018.

Mary McKee, M.A., C.T. has worked as a freelance Spanish>English translator, editor, MT post editor and project manager for over a decade, and recently transitioned to roles as a project manager for companies that focus on Machine Translation. She lives in Seattle with her husband and two daughters.

Javier Castillo, Jr. is president of Castillo Language Services, Inc. in Greenville, NC. He is an interpreter, translator, consultant, and internationally recognized speaker. He is a Federally Certified Court Interpreter, NC AOC certified court interpreter, a Certified Medical Interpreter (CCHI), and a contract interpreter for the U.S. Department of State, and he routinely interprets for international delegations and high-level speakers across the United States and abroad.

Since 2007, Javier has offered training workshops for court, medical, conference, and community interpreters across the U.S., and he is a frequent speaker and trainer at national and international conferences. Additionally, Javier is the President of the Carolina Association of Translators and Interpreters (CATI), the Chair of the National Association of Judiciary Interpreters and Translators (NAJIT), Head of the U.S. Chapter of the International Association of Professional Interpreters and Translators (IAPTI), and an active member of the American Translator’s Association (ATA).

Jamie Lucero holds an M.A. in French to English Translation from the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey and has been a translation tools expert for over 20 years. He is a former NOTIS board member and former Program Manager of the Bellevue College Translation & Interpretation Professional Certificate Program. Jamie currently focuses on freelance translation-tools consulting and training.

Eva Stabenow, MPH, MA, CT (DE<>EN), loves nothing more than talking, writing, and teaching about language, health, and physical activity. A certified translator, public health professional, and Pilates teacher, Eva brings a unique blend of expertise to her presentations. Her goal? To empower other language professionals to not only improve their own lives through better desk habits and healthy movement, but to also contribute to better health communication across languages and cultures. Attendees can expect to leave her presentations equipped with practical tools to improve their work environment, enhance their physical health through appropriate movement, and promote effective communication for better public health outcomes. Eva holds an MA in Conference Interpreting, recently completed a Master’s degree in Public Health, and teaches functional, corrective Pilates at her studio in Nashville, TN. She has served ATA as a certification exam grader, a mentor, and a GLD administrator and is a past president of the Southeast Chapter of the American Medical Writers Association.