We are committed to working with all directly impacted by language exclusion and violence to create platforms for insisting on justice and reparations for people in the aftermath of language violence.

La/él líder del Equipo de Traducción de Español está a cargo de coordinar la ejecución de proyectos de traducción de principio a fin (incluyendo: casos de asilo; registro público de violencia doméstica…
Trabajo de medio tiempo
Fecha límite para aplicar: 5 de julio 2022

La/él Líder del Equipo de Lenguas Indígenas está a cargo de coordinar la ejecución de proyectos de traducción de principio a fin (incluyendo: casos de asilo; registro público de violencia doméstica…
Trabajo de medio tiempo
Fecha límite para aplicar: 5 de julio 2022

In order to ensure we can provide consistent, high-quality language support to Arabic speaking asylum seekers, Respond Crisis Translation is looking for someone who can lead the work of our Arabic Team.
Half-time position
Deadline to apply: July 5, 2022

There is so much happening in the world that pulls us in many directions. One thing we know, the Respond community, has each other’s backs. Since the beginning of 2022 we’ve mobilized to help Haitians, Afghans, Ukrainians, and so many others.

Without the help of interpreters like those who stepped forward at Respond Crisis, we would not have been able to do our part of this community wide effort. Respond has truly allowed us to respond during this crisis.

The Respond Ukrainian team translated a list of urgent medications needed in Kharkiv for civilians currently being bombarded.

Our Dari and Pashto teams, led by our amazing Afghan languages team lead Uma Mirkhail, have been working in partnership with HIAS to make their Mental Health curriculum for group facilitators linguistically-accessible to Afghan facilitators.

In this video, our Afghan Languages Team Lead discusses the importance of her work and why it is so urgent to fund Afghan language practitioners.

Respond has been working with Growing Up Green Charter Schools in Queens, New York since early 2020 to make report cards, teachers comments, and parent-teacher conferences linguistablly accessible for non-English speaking families.

Respond has been working with HIAS over the last year to make their Financial Literacy curriculum entirely available, in both written translation and audio recording, to refugee clients in Spanish, Russian, and Farsi.

In August of 2021, our language teams at Respond began working with Primary.Health, a software and tech management organization facilitating COVID testing, vaccination, and state reporting across the country.
Primary.Health focuses on eliminating long-standing health and social inequities and disparities…

Translating UNICEF Climate Change and Child’s Rights Report into 7 Languages.
Climate Cardinals, a partner of Respond’s since the summer of 2020, is an international youth-led nonprofit working to make the climate movement more accessible to those who don’t speak English…

by Ada Wordsworth
I have now spent two full days on the Polish/Ukrainian border. To be honest, I can’t remember two more tiring or emotionally draining days – but that’s no surprise. My respect for people who work with displaced people full time, already high, has shot up even higher….

by Talia Lavin
Insofar as the war in Ukraine is a war about anything, it is a war about language—a war whose ludicrous justification by Vladimir Putin is in part based on the utterly false claim that the Russian language, and its speakers, have been systematically repressed, to the point of genocide, by a merciless, fascist Ukrainian regime…

To the incredible partners we work with--grassroots collectives and mutual aid groups mobilizing everyday to support their communities, immigration attorneys and legal assistants, educators, therapists, social workers, organizers--thank you for trusting us to partner with you in your critical work. And for the kindness and energy that make us feel so grateful and excited to continue to do this work with you everyday.

We wanted to share an update on the incredible work our Haitian Kreyol translators and Team Leads have been able to accomplish. Thank you to everyone who supported the mutual aid fund which has helped make all this work possible…

Respond Crisis Translation volunteer Katie Becker recently graduated with a Master of Arts in Global Security and Borders from Queen’s University Belfast. Her master’s dissertation, (In)credible Fear: Linguistic Refoulement and Indigenous-Language Speakers at the U.S.-Mexico Border, was inspired by her work as a volunteer Spanish translator …

Know your Rights Guide is a guide for all migrants living in the UK, including those without documents and those trying to regularise their immigration status, including asylum seekers. This guide was created to help migrants to understand their rights in a situation where immigration rules are changing regularly. It is also useful for…

Respond’s Russian Team has collaborated with Kyrgyzstani investigative news outlet Kloop Media to create an English language version of Kloop’s site. In addition to making many of Kloop’s articles accessible to English-speaking readers, the partnership has also enabled…