Cornelia Brown Is Named Inttranet(TM) Linguist Of Year For Her 'Interpreting For Peace' Initiative
The members of the Inttranet™, the international network of professional interpreters and translators, have elected Dr. Cornelia Brown as their Linguist of the Year for 2010 for her "Interpreting for Peace" initiative.
- (1888PressRelease) January 05, 2011 - Rouen, France - Dr. Brown is executive director of the not-for-profit association MAMI Community Interpreters of Utica and Syracuse.
The award, which this year includes € 650 from sponsors, is to be donated to an international charity of Dr. Brown's choice.
The Linguist of the Year Awards recognize the struggle - and sometimes the personal sacrifice - of linguists who have been the focus for media attention during the past year, and have increased public awareness of the importance of linguists and languages as a result, according to the organization's inttranews.net website.
As a Kathryn Davis Fellow for Peace, Brown spent last summer in "Interpreting for Peace" training at Middlebury College Language Schools in Vermont. She was selected as a working professional promoting conflict resolution; specifically, leading an initiative to train court interpreters across Central New York. Under her guidance, MAMI has been developing a two-part court interpreting course to prepare qualify interpreters for work in New York State courts
Other nominees for the Inttranet™ Linguists of the Year Awards included: the newly established U.S. National Board of Certification for Medical Interpreters, pre-Columbian America and Mayan scholar Dennis Tedlock, Canadian Afghan interpreter Ahmadshah Malgarai, Talmud translator Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz, Linguistic Systems Inc. of Massachusetts, "Why Translation Matters" author Edith Grossman, the REACH112 telephone project for disabled and elderly in Great Britain, Mashpee Wampanoag linguist Jessie Little Doe Baird, and Cornell University elephant vocalization researchers.
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