Ariel Koren

Executive Director; Co-Founder

Ariel is the founder of Respond Crisis Translation and a multilingual person committed to the language community's responsibility to fight back whenever language is weaponized to impede freedom of mobility. Ariel has worked as a trauma-informed interpreter in disparate emergency contexts, including for families experiencing detention, survivors of gender-based violence, and climate refugees. She has worked as a language access project manager at Google Translate and Google for Education and is a member of the Alphabet Workers Union. She is also one of the organizers who co-created Jewish Diaspora in Tech, an anti-nationalist Jewish organizing community of tech workers acting in solidarity with communities leading the fight against the carceral state, techno-militarism, and white nationalism. She speaks Spanish, English, Portuguese, French, Mandarin, Arabic, Hebrew, Italian, Ladino, and ASL.