Professional Translation and Interpreting - English/Spanish

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 Jennifer Figueira has been involved in the foreign    language field for over 20 years, teaching, translating, and interpreting.  She has studied in the United States and in Argentina.  During her residence overseas  she majored in Psychology at the University of Buenos Aires while teaching English and Spanish at diverse institutions. Ms. Figueira later was co-owner and director of an Art and Language Institute in the Capital of Buenos Aires. She gained experience working as an interpreter for holistic medicine conferences and lectures, translating health material, and has interpreted live for several guests on television.  Ms. Figueira also  enjoyed working as a translator and transcriptionist for subtitles of movies and historical documentaries. After returning to the U.S. she  became a Spanish instructor and translator. Ms. Figueira currently works as a Court Interpreter in Delaware and Maryland and has been an Adjunct Instructor at Delaware Technical and Community College since 2001 teaching credit and non-credit Spanish courses of different levels. She is also a freelance interpreter and translator. Ms. Figueira is a State Certified Court Interpreter in Delaware and Maryland. She is a member several professional associations including the American Translators Association and the National Council on Interpreting in Health Care.