Our Team

Respond Crisis Translation is a coalition of language practitioners fighting to dismantle systemic language rights violations.

We use our voices and language skills to enable access to legal support, social services, healthcare, and all other human rights. We mobilize to provide both acute emergency response and long-term ongoing language access support.

Meet the Team - Leadership Team - Board of Directors - Interpreters and Translators

Leadership Team

**Andrea Vargas**
*Director of Art and Design*

**Ariel Koren**
*Co-founder and Executive Director*

**Ayah Najadat**
*Head of Arabic Team and Co-lead of Training*

**Aymeric Felt**
*French Team Project Manager*

**Dachiny Ewekengha**
*Co-head of* *French Team*

**Dafnes Aly**
*Co-head of Portuguese Team*

**Danielle Josyle**
*Co-head of French Team and Haitian Creole Team*

**Demeke Akalu**
*Amharic and Oromo Team Project Manager*

**Diana Ghebrezadik**
*Head of Tigrinya Team*

**Dudu Kone**
*West African Local Languages Team Project Manager*

**Em Wilder**
*Director of* *Communications*

**Franciso López**
*Operations Associate*

**Isa Romo**
*Director of* *Human Resources*

**Laura Wagner**
Co-Director of Policy and
Zanmi of Haitian Creole Team

**Leila Lorenzo**
*Co-Director of Policy*

**Lina Abdulzahra**
*Arabic Team Project Manager*

**Lillian Leung**
*Chinese Team Project Manager*

**Machaela Parkin**
*Ukrainian and Russian Team Project Manager*

Head of Greek Team — **Maria Kastani**
*Head of* *Greek Team*

**Meg Sears**
*Co-founder and Director of Operations*

**Mohamed Fenzari**
*Arabic Team Project Manager*

**Muhammad Yaseen Sharifzai**
*Afghan Languages Team Project Manager*

**Patricia Alvarado B**
*Spanish Team* *Project Manager*

**Pierre Seide Beaubrun**
*Head of Finances*

Gopalakrishnan Raghavan - Hindi Team Co-Lead — **Radhika Gopalakrishnan**
*Hindi Team Project Manager*

**Ralph Olivier Pierre**
*Co-head of Haitian Creole Team*

Raman is the Kurdish Language lead at Respond Crisis Translation — **Raman Salah**
*Head of* *Kurdish Team*

Head of Spanish Team, Co-Lead of Training Team — **Tatiana García**
*Head of* *Spanish Team, Co-Lead of Training Team*

Head of Ukrainian and Russian Teams — **Tetyana Grygoryeva**
*Head of* *Ukrainian and Russian Teams*

Dahir - Somali Team Lead — **Siham Dahir**
*Somali Team Project Manager*

Head of Afghan Languages Team — **Uma Mirkhail**
*Head of* *Afghan Languages Team*

Portuguese Team Co-Lead — **Vanessa C. Ferreira**
Co-*head of Portuguese Team*

Head of Less Frequent and Marginalized Languages Team — **Valentina Callari Lewis**
*Head of* *Less Frequent and Marginalized Languages Team*

Board of Directors

Dr. Alex Hanna

Rhonda Jarrar

Fernanda de Oliveira

Juan Camilo Mendez

Nina Papachristou

Tony Wood

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Respond Interpreters and Translators around the globe

Argentina, U.S., UK, Spain, Nicaragua, Mexico, Italy, Ecuador, Dominican Republic, Colombia, Chile, Canada, Palestine, UAE, Germany, Venezuela.
Armenia, Australia, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Crimea, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kyrgyzstan, Liberia, Mexico, Mongolia, Nigeria, Poland, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, Netherlands, UK, Ukraine, U.S.
Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan, North America (mostly Toronto).
Haiti, Brazil, Canada, Mexico, US.
Algeria, Egypt, Germany, Greece, India, Iraq, Lebanon, Libya, Malaysia, Morocco, Qatar, Spain, Switzerland, Tunisia, Turkey, UAE, UK, U.S., Yemen.
Albania, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Belarus, Belgium, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Canada, Cyprus, Czech Republic, DR of Congo, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Guatemala, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Kyrgyztan, Laos, Lithuania, Malaysia, Mali, Myanmar (Burma), Nepal, Niger, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Russia, Rwanda, Senegal, Serbia, Singapore, Slovakia, South Korea, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Thailand, Netherlands, Turkey, UAE, UK, Ukraine, U.S., 2 in Vietnam, Zimbabwe.
Argentina, Belgium, Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Canada, Colombia, Cote D’Ivoire, France, Germany, Haiti, Italy, Mali, Mexico, Morocco, Nigeria, Senegal, Spain, UAE, UK, U.S., Republic of Congo.

Our Team

Respond Crisis Translation is a coalition of language practitioners fighting to dismantle systemic language rights violations.

Meet the Team - Leadership Team - Board of Directors - Interpreters and Translators

Leadership Team

Board of Directors

Dr. Alex Hanna

Rhonda Jarrar

Fernanda de Oliveira

Juan Camilo Mendez

Nina Papachristou

Tony Wood

WATCH THIS VIDEO TO MEET THE TEAM:

Respond Interpreters and Translators around the globe

Spanish Team ∼183 translators

Ukrainian and Russian Team ∼120 Ukrainian /∼359 Russian translators

Afghan Languages Team ∼39 translators

Haitian Creole Team ∼25 translators

Arabic Team ∼58 translators

Less Frequently Requested Languages Team ∼329 translators

French Team ∼84 translators

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