My Motto: To learn and teach the best that has been thought, written, and said

My Elevator Pitch:

I am a dedicated professional based in New York City, balancing roles as a full-time freelance translator and a NYSED-licensed high school and university educator in English (ENL/ESL/ELA) and Spanish. My translation portfolio includes thousands of successfully completed documents for legal, immigration, academic, and admissions purposes. I partner with numerous US-based and international translation agencies, institutions, and individuals, consistently ensuring client satisfaction through high-quality, accurate work.

Professional Affiliations:

New York State Education Department (NYSED), New York City Department of Education (NYC DOE), The City University of New York (CUNY), St. John's University (SJU), Pace University, and Queens Borough Public Library (QPL)

Professional Experience:

- education - transcripts of academic record, course descriptions, report cards, etc.

- certificates and diplomas - employment verification records, training completion certificates, etc.

- private correspondence - letters, e-mails, text messages, etc.

- linguistics - papers, abstracts, articles, etc.

- law - court decrees, legal correspondence, contracts, wills, etc.

- sport - articles, press releases, books, etc.

- travel - websites, brochures, leaflets, flyers, etc.

Educational Background: 

1) multilingual family and childhood

2) street smarts - The University of Life, Department of Lifelong Learning, School of Hard Knocks

2) extensive travels

3) obsessive efferent and aesthetic reading

4) "errors" and "mistakes"   

5) Master's Degree in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages

6) Master's Degree in Linguistics

7) DELE

8) DELF

Language Proficiency: Dominican Spanish, German, Italian, Polish, and US English

Cultural Literacy:

- in-depth knowledge of North American, Dominican, and German cultures

- solid knowledge of British, Colombian, Italian, Polish, and Spanish cultures

- extensive leisure travel experience

Professional and Personal Interests:

*applied linguistics

*applied science

*architecture

*art

*birds

*bridges

*Dominican life and institutions

*educational technology

*Florida (esp. Miami and the Everglades)

*higher education issues

*human brain

*idioms, maxims, proverbs, sayings, and slang (US Slang and Dominican "tigueraje")

*memory training

*MBE (Mind, Brain, and Education Science)

*mugs

*native peoples of the Americas

*New York City

*psychology

*reading

*samba and salsa

*tennis

*translation

*travels

*trains

*wildlife