NITA offers ProfDev events during the year!
NITA offers ProfDev events several times a year!
Professional Development
NITA offers ProfDev events to its members and friends who are interested in advancing their T&I career or need to fulfill credentialing requirements
NITA is driven by an enthusiastic and diverse group of language professionals, all working together in pursuit of the highest language service standards for all stakeholders involved. We are advancing toward providing accessible, accountable and high-quality language services throughout our community. Come join us!
Upcoming Events
NITA events
If you are an interpreter and interested in skill-building opportunities in Nevada, check out our professional development events sponsored and organized by NITA. If you are interested in strengthening your skills as an interpreter in medical / health care settings, or need Continuing Education Credits for AOC, and also quickly come up to speed with the important and particular code of conduct and professional / ethical topics applicable to this wonderful profession, our courses are for you!
Latest News
CALL FOR NOMINATIONS
NITA elections will be held in March 2020, and we need your help! Nominate another member or yourself for any of the six positions that we will vote for: President, Vice President, Treasurer, Secretary, and two Directors. The Directors may focus on a particular area (such as Ethics, Advocacy, Bar and Bench, Membership, etc.). The President will be for a one-year term running from March 2020 to March 2021. The Vice President, Secretary, Treasurer, and two director positions will be for two-year terms running from March 2020 to March 2022. You may download the Nomination Form here.
You may send your nomination form to the Nominating Committee at lpike@exetranslations.com by Friday, February 7, 2020.
Industry News & Events
Our friends from the Houston Interpreters and Translators Association will have a great webinar with translator extraordinaire Ártemis López.
During the webinar, participants will learn how to approach non-binary, trans, and queer language in translation and gain a basic understanding of non-binary, trans, and queer identities.
For more info and registration, please visit HITA's website:
www.hitagroup.org/event/say-their-name-say-their-name-non-binary-trans-and-queer-communities-in-t...
Say their name, say their name: non-binary, trans, and queer communities in translation
www.hitagroup.org
As non-binary, trans, and queer people become more visible both in the media and in daily life, we become more likely of having to translate or interpret for members these communities—or even of meeting one in our personal lives.Our friends from the Midwest Association of Translators & Interpreters (MATI) are offering a very interesting webinar on understanding cultures to improve Communicative Interpreting on February 19, 2020 (7:30 PM - 8:30 PM).
For more info and to register, visit MATI's website at www.matiata.org/event-3681064
www.matiata.org
Understanding cultural context is an essential part of an interpreter’s job. Indeed, the backdrop of a person's experience will affect his/her behavior, syntax choices and expectations in a communicative encounter. How, then, might interpreters deal with situations wherein they are not entirely fa...