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Trans Asylum Seeker, formerly denied legal representation, has been granted release
We are grateful to our partner Al Otro Lado for sharing this story with our team at Respond Crisis Translation. […]
B.L.C is a trans asylum seeker who was detained at Otay Mesa without legal representation. Respond translated all of her documents into English for her bond hearing, …
Detained asylum seeker, formerly denied access to interpreter, has been granted release
We are grateful to our partner Al Otro Lado for sharing this story with our team at Respond Crisis Translation. […] J.A.S., originally from Mexico, has worked in agricultural fields in the United States for years. He was arrested by local police and detained at Otay Mesa Detention Center for months …
Promoting Tenants’ Rights Amidst COVID-19: Partnering with Bay Area Rent Strike
COVID-19 provided new challenges to those already struggling to pay exorbitant rent prices in the Bay Area. In response to the sudden loss of jobs, Bay Area Rent Strike helped organize and inform on how to organize a refusal to pay rent, at least until proper legislative protection could be put in place…
Translating essential resources in collaboration with Emma's Torch
Respond has been collaborating with Emma's Torch over the past few weeks to translate essential resources related to employment and benefits during the COVID-19 pandemic. Emma's Torch provides refugees with culinary training, ESL classes and interview preparation. The non-profit runs their training…
Through language, deepening our understanding of the psychosocial impact of COVID19
We’re so thrilled to share that our volunteers have just completed a massive translation project in collaboration with The Department of Population Health Science and Policy at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York! Fifteen of Respond’s volunteers helped translate…
Spanish Language Resource Hub for COVID-19
We are excited to announce that our volunteer network translated over 30 articles about COVID19 from English into Spanish in collaboration with the project COVID-19 en español.
COVID19 Myth Busting Videos are Live!
Our volunteers recently collaborated with the non-profit USAHello to make short videos combatting common myths about COVID19 available in Farsi, Russian, Turkish, Mandarin and Cantonese. USAHello is a free online center for information and education for refugees, asylum seekers, and immigrants…
Respond volunteer writes in the New York Times about her critical work
One of our volunteer translators Kate Goldman today is published in the New York Times where she discusses the urgency of her language access work with Respond Crisis Translation in addition to ICE´s responsibility to …