Our greek team of translators has been pretty busy lately - and one of the partners we owe that to is Ethos & Empathy! We are very excited to announce our partnership with Ethos & Empathy since the beginning of May. We have been supporting it non-stop ever since and have learned a lot through our cooperation.

Respond’s Haitian Creole, Portuguese and Vietnamese teams collaborated with our partner PAIR Project (Political Asylum/Immigration Representation) to make Know Your Rights (KYR) presentations for middle and high schoolers linguistically and culturally accessible.

Respond’s Language Quality Lead and Spanish interpreter Romina Galloso Sabat provided 2 hours of live simultaneous English/Spanish interpretation for a worker roundtable hosted by Next100.

We at Respond are honored and grateful to have been named 2021 Pillars of Change by our partner Sanctuary for Families. You can find the article on the SFF website or printed here.

Respond partnered with South Asian Americans Leading Together (SAALT) to make Anti-Asian Hate Resources accessible in Korean, Vietnamese, Tagalog, Khmer, Gujarati, Nepali, Tamil, Telegu, Urdu.

Respond translators win journalism award for their work exposing femicide in Kyrgyzstan.
With help from Respond Crisis Translation’s Russian team, a report on femicide in Kyrgyzstan by Kyrgyz investigative media outlet Kloop has been shortlisted for the 2021 Sigma Awards, an international competition recognizing …

Respond’s Spanish Team recently completed an approximately 60-page translation as part of a new partnership with the Transgender Law Center, the largest national trans-led organization advocating self-determination for all people.

Through a grant from the Provost’s Office at Brown University, Respond Crisis Translation will help generate a training program for interpreters and translators who work in languages spoken by African migrants, materials for partner organizations that can be used to raise awareness among detainees and others,…

In partnership with ImmSchools, Respond Crisis Translation has worked to translate dozens of key resources for undocumented and mixed-status families navigating the educational system. In this interview, ImmSchools founders Viridiana Carrizales and Vanessa Luna discuss the critical importance of language access to their work…

To the Respond community and all who support it this is our Stats Update!!
This is a staggering impact -- made possible by your unflagging support, unwavering energy and consistent commitment! It is amazing what we have been able to do together!

In this article, Romina Galloso, translator, interpreter and Language Outcomes Quality Lead at Respond Crisis Translation, shares her thoughts on her experience working as an interpreter for therapy sessions.

As the Biden administration begins to unravel Title 42 and MPP, chaos at the border ensues as asylum seekers struggle to figure out what is happening with changing immigration policies…

15 translators and 5 project managers on the Respond team worked for months to translate hundreds of pages of Pro Se materials into Arabic, Bangla, French, Haitian Creole, Hindi, Portuguese, Punjabi and Russian in collaboration with our wonderful partners at Southern Poverty Law Center.

HIAS has been around since 1881 as a refugee-serving organization. We protect the most vulnerable refugees, helping them build new lives and reuniting them with their families in safety and freedom. We advocate for the protection of refugees and assure that displaced people are treated with the dignity they deserve….

Edith Maria Muleiro of the University of Texas at Austin has produced a thesis that highlights the many ways in which interpretation inadequacies make asylum nearly impossible to obtain. She based part of her research on conversations with the Respond Crisis Translation team.

Respond Crisis Translation is excited to partner with Zaborona Media, a Ukrainian “new media” outlet to ensure English-language access to untold stories coming from Ukraine and throughout eastern Europe and Central Asia. Zaborona (the Ukrainian word for “taboo”) is a ground-breaking news outlet…

As part of an art-based campaign to bring awareness to the issue of gender-based violence in Mexico and the larger Meso-America region, the Las Vanders collective partnered with Respond Crisis Translation to translate flyers and pamphlets from Spanish to both English and French.

When I asked Elizabeth the word for freedom in Kaqchikel, her native Mayan language spoken in Guatemala , she told me there is no direct equivalent. She provided her own poetic translation: Nq'isamuj' y manq'i pahe tu'j which translates to: “luchar sin detenerse” - ¨to fight without being stopped¨…

Respond’s Spanish and Haitian Creole teams will be doing simultaneous interpreting for the release of Embracing Our Strengths, a two-part, immigrant-designed and immigrant-led project to address the needs of undocumented and mixed-status immigrant families through improved state policy…

An article in Mother Jones covers Respond’s work defending a client who was denied access to an interpreter even in spite of requesting translation support over ten times while critically ill in detention.