In this episode, we meet Elana Pick and Yuliya Tsaplina to discuss the importance of professional training for interpreters and the future of this profession.
More information about the MCI program at Glendon College: https://www.glendon.yorku.ca/interpretation/
About our guests:
Yuliya Tsaplina received an MA in Conference Interpretation from ESIT – a graduate school of interpretation and translation in Paris in 2002. She then came back to NY and worked as a freelance conference interpreter based out of New York and Washington, DC until 2013, when she moved back to Paris with her family. Since 2012 Yuliya has been teaching conference interpretation at the MCI – Master in Conference Interpretation program at Glendon College, York University in Toronto, Canada. Recently she also started teaching conference interpretation at ISIT, one of Paris’s two interpretation schools.
Her email is yuliya@nyc-interpreters.com
Elana Pick graduated from the Tbilisi Foreign Languages Teachers Training Institute and Moscow State University School of Journalism, has a Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences Degree from the USSR Academy of Pedagogical Sciences. Based in New York, she currently teaches court interpreting at the MCI program at Glendon College, Toronto, Canada, also taught at NYU School of Continuing and Professional Studies. She is an ATA Certified (EN>RU) translator, a grader, and a Court-approved interpreter.
Her email is pick.ep@gmail.com
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Music: "UpUpUp and Over" by Blue Dot Sessions from the Free Music Archive
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