Spanish to English translation

Mary is a professional freelance translator based in Atlanta, Georgia, United States and was born in 1971. She holds a translating certification by Georgetown University and translates Spanish, French, and Portuguese into English. Mary is also a notary public and business consultant to fellow freelance translators. Additionally, she is the founder and moderator of "SpTranslators," an Internet mailing list for Spanish translators, the founder and moderator of "Legaltranslators," an Internet mailing list for legal translators, a regular columnist for "Tranfree," a 13,000-subscriber e-zine for freelance translators, and a regular forum moderator for Translatortips.com, a popular portal for freelance translators.

Mary is a member of the Atlanta Association of Interpreters and Translators (AAIT). Other memberships include the International Who's Who of Professionals, the American Translators Association, the National Association of Judiciary Interpreters and Translators, and the National Notary Association.

Mary, who is actually of Lebanese descent, chose to study Spanish instead of Arabic as a child because she felt inexplicably drawn to the Spanish language and Latin culture. Although she was born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia, she has traveled extensively throughout Western Europe, and lived in Madrid, Paris, and Washington, D.C. for a while before embarking on her translation career. She is an accomplished classical pianist and enjoys cooking, dancing, art, and singing - in her words, all the things that make life worth living. She has even been known to perform at a karaoke club or two. Currently, she is learning all she can about wines and the wine industry in order to do more translation work in that area.

Jennifer graduated from the University of Michigan in 1995 with a B.A. in both French and Political Science.  She began translating as a freelancer from French and Spanish into English in 1999 after relocating from her native Michigan to the Dominican Republic, where she continues to live with her husband and two children.  Jennifer specializes in the fields of agriculture (including food science and plant biotech), politics and development, tourism, and the arts.  She also routinely proofreads the English of non-native speakers working in these areas.  She has remained agile in her working languages through extended residence in Québec, France, and the Dominican Republic.  She prefers a multilingual, multicultural workplace, having also worked in refugee resettlement and as a teacher of English in the French Lycée in Santo Domingo.  Jennifer's strengths as a translator lie in her respect for both the art and science of intercultural communication and in her resourceful and collaborative nature.