The fires spreading across California are a poignant reminder of the urgency with which we must stand up to address climate change. At Respond, we recognize that environmental justice and language justice are intertwined, and that our climate activism is only as effective as it is linguistically accessible.

During the summer of 2020, Respond Crisis Translation collaborated with Professor Pablo Dominguez and his students at Dartmouth College to complete a 125-page translation of critical evidence related to an asylum case.

We are grateful to our partner Al Otro Lado for sharing this story with our team at Respond Crisis Translation. […]
A.A. has been in detention for months. Respond Crisis Translation connected his attorney, Denisha Jones, with a Pulaar interpreter…

We are grateful to our partner Al Otro Lado for sharing this story with our team at Respond Crisis Translation. […]
B.R.P., originally from Mexico, is an asylum-seeker and survivor of severe domestic violence. She was detained at Otay Mesa Detention Center for nearly a year…

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, …

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 …

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…

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…

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…

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.

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…

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 …