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.

At the Florence Project, we provide free legal and social services to detained men, women, and children in immigration proceedings in Arizona. I specifically work with adult men and women who are detained and seeking asylum…

SIFI stands for the Southeast Immigrant Freedom Initiative (La Iniciativa para la Liberación de los Inmigrantes en el Sureste). We are a pro bono legal services project initiated by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) in 2017 to serve people detained at ICE detention centers across the Deep South United States.

At the start of the spread of COVID 19, the Respond Crisis Translation team saw a significant increase in urgent needs for oral interpreting. Victoria Roisman and Nicole Posadas led the launch of a program designed to train and mobilize oral interpreters to support asylum seekers and other people who experience language-based vulnerability.

Journalist Yula Rocha has written about Respond Crisis Translation in the Stanford Social Innovation Review. She interviewed Respond´s Ariel Koren and Fernanda de Oliveira as well as Respond partners Aida Farahani, attorney at RAICES, and Leticia Morales, Founder of Texas Nicaraguan Community.

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.

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 …