Roberta H. Gottfried
Director and Founder, Language
Ventures
Roberta
H. Gottfried has more than 15 years of experience in international education,
specifically developing and managing training programs, developing class resources,
contract administration, and reinforcing community networks at the national and
international level.
Roberta is
skilled at developing specialized interpreter training programs and creating networks
of community and health care interpreters. She has lived and worked in Europe,
Asia, and Africa for 25 years. This experience gives her an international outlook
and enjoyment of working in multi-cultural communities. She was in France for
14 years, spent five years in Niger, West Africa, followed by Tucson, Arizona
where she lived for seven years before moving to San Diego.
While in Tucson, Roberta was a lead instructor for a 60-hour Community Interpreter
Training Course at Pima Community College and developed a network of trained volunteer
asylum interpreters for the Asylum Program of Southern Arizona. She worked as
a mental health interpreter for the Refugee Resettlement Program at Jewish Family
and Children Services, where she also trained new interpreters.
Roberta speaks French fluently, having learned the language at a young age. Roberta’s
interpreting and translating experience includes health care, mental health, asylum,
general business, and agricultural development.
She has Certificates of Completion for Community Interpreter Education from the
Monterey Institute of International Studies and the Interpreter Training Program
with Jewish Family & Children Services, Refugee Mental Health Program, in
Tucson and soon, an Adult Education Certificate from the Arizona State Board of
Education.
Roberta is a member of
the California Health Care Interpreting Association (CHIA), an Associate Member
of the American Translators Association (ATA) and a volunteer French Interpreter
for the Asylum Program of Southern Arizona.
Please
click on any of the following links for more details on Roberta's experience.
Jewish
Family & Children Services, Refugee Mental Health Program
Pima
College Interpreter Training Course
Asylum
Program Interpreter Training Course
International
Rescue Commitee Workshop
Student
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