Latin America and the Caribbean
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Edith Muleiro
University of Texas Austin, Texas, USA [email protected] Read Edith’s April 2021 Spotlight on Language, Culture and Justice. I recently graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a dual B.A. in Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures, Plan II Honors and a minor in Arabic. I have been working with migrant communities from the Middle East…
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Lissie Wahl-Kleiser
Independent Researcher Medical Anthropologist and Nationally Certified Medical Interpreter Harvard Medical School Department of Global Health Social Medicine Boston, Massachusetts [email protected] Communicative justice is at the core of my research and practice as medical interpreter in the Greater Boston area. For the last 15 years I have observed, participated and struggled against the silencing of…
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Laurence Simon
Heller School for Social Policy and Management Brandeis University Waltham, Massachusetts, USA [email protected] I am a cultural geographer at the Heller School at Brandeis where I serve as the Professor of International Development and Director of the Center for Global Development and Sustainability. I’ve worked in many settings around the world including Central America, Southern…
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Álvaro Paúl
Professor of Law Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile Santiago, Chile [email protected] I obtained my PhD at Trinity College Dublin (2013), my master’s degree (Magister Juris) at the University of Oxford (2009), and my law degree (Licenciado) at the Universidad de los Andes (Chile, 2003). I am also the director of the law journal Revista Chilena…
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Paulina Meza
Associate Professor and Researcher Department of Arts and Languages Universidad de la Serena Chile [email protected] Read Paulina’s February 2022 Spotlight on Language, Culture and Justice. I am an associate professor and researcher at the Universidad de La Serena, Chile. With the support of the National Fund for Scientific and Technological Development, I have studied the production…
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Aisha Maniar
Freelance Legal Translator and Activist United Kingdom [email protected] I am a freelance legal translator with undergraduate degrees in modern languages (Arabic and French) and law and a postgraduate degree in translation. I have worked for international governmental and nongovernmental organizations as a translator. I have taught MA Translation Studies at a British university as a…
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Molly Hamm-Rodríguez
Assistant Professor, Social Foundations of Education University of South Florida [email protected] I am a linguistic anthropologist of education broadly interested in the relationships between language, race, migration, labor, and schooling as they shape the social futures of youth and young adults in global school-to-work, college and career readiness, and workforce development programs. I use ethnography,…
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Irene Gotera
Linguistic Justice® Founder Washington, D.C. [email protected] I’m a social entrepreneur passionate about language, justice, and equality. Born in Venezuela, I’m a prospective Asylee in the U.S. and a TPS holder, as well as a former attorney with a master’s degree in Civil Procedural Law. Upon relocating to the U.S., I pursued my linguist training and national…
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María Luz García
Associate Professor of Sociology, Anthropology and Criminology Eastern Michigan University Ypsilanti, Michigan [email protected] I take perspectives from linguistic and cultural anthropology to consider the ways that Ixil Mayas make use of the resources of their language in constructing and reflecting social realities. In my doctoral research, I considered the expression of historical memory of the…
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Katie Becker
Graduate Student Public Affairs and Law New Jersey and Connecticut, USA [email protected] Read Katie’s May 2022 Spotlight on Language, Culture and Justice. I am a joint-degree student at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs and Yale Law School. My professional background is as a Spanish-English interpreter and translator. I worked in community education and outreach…
