Product Description
by Rafa Lombardino (Author)
The profile of beginning language professionals in the digital age
Author Biography
RAFA LOMBARDINO is a translator and journalist from Brazil who lives in California. She has been working as a translator since 1997 and is currently the President and CEO of Word Awareness, a small network of professional translators who work together in multilingual projects. She is certified by the American Translators Association (ATA) in both English-to-Portuguese and Portuguese-to-English translations and has a Professional Certificate in English/Spanish Translations from the University of California San Diego Extension, where she started teaching classes in 2010 about the role of technology in the translation industry. In order to diversify her career, she joined forces with self-published authors and small publishers to translated books into Portuguese and English. In addition to acting as content curator at eWordNews, a bilingual blog dedicated to literary translations and self-publishing efforts, she also coordinates a project called Contemporary Brazilian Short Stories (CBSS), which promotes Brazilian literature worldwide.
