Translation & Interpretation

Instructors

Carmen Alzas is a native Spanish speaker from Mexico with more than 25 years of experience teaching Spanish. She is a professional translator and the author of various textbooks on Civics and Social Studies at elementary and middle school levels.

Patricia Bennett, B.A., is a native Spanish speaker from Mexico City, with more than 20 years of international business experience linking the private and public sectors in the US and Latin American countries. Her expertise involves culturally appropriate translation and interpretation of commercial, academic, environmental, legal, and medical documents.

Andy Benzo, J.D., is an international lecturer, attorney and certified translator from her native Argentina. She has 22 years of experience as a professional legal translator and conference interpreter. Her extensive teaching experience includes courses on interpretation, business, and legal translation at the university level, seminars and corporate training.

Georgina Bushnell, B.S. in Food Engineering and graduate studies in Dairy Science and Technology in Sweden and Great Britain. She is a native Spanish speaker from Mexico City with over ten years experience in technical translation and interpretation.

 

Rebeca Calderón, M.A., is a federal- and state-certified court interpreter with over 20 years of experience in the legal field. She has extensive teaching experience and has also worked as a media interpreter, doing news simulcasts.

 

Aidé Gomez, B.A., is a medical interpreter and translator with extensive teaching experience. She works in the International Services department at Scripps Clinic, Torrey Pines in La Jolla. She also teaches medical Spanish at the UCSD School of Medicine.

 

Gloria D. Mayne, M.A., is a California-certified court interpreter and an American Translators Association-accredited translator. Her expertise, which includes both Spanish to English and English to Spanish, encompasses the fields of accounting and auditing, advertising, banking, business administration, commerce, economics, finance, insurance, labor relations, law, marketing, public relations, real estate, and tourism.

Matthew Mendenhall, M.A., is a federally certified court interpreter and a graduate of the Translation/Interpretation program at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He has worked as an interpreter/translator for over 15 years at the federal courts in San Diego, prior to which he was a Spanish language instructor at North Carolina State University.

 

Mary Negrete, M.A. TESOL, B.A., Spanish, has over 20 years experience teaching ESL, basic composition, and grammar at the community college and university level. She also teaches Sight Translation and Spanish to English translation and works as a freelance translator.

 

Teresa Newman, M.A., academic coordinator, received her master’s degree in Translation and Interpretation from the Monterey Institute of International Studies. She has extensive experience as a scientific translator, conference interpreter and educator.

Catherine Pick, B.A., received her degree in Languages Applied to International Business with a major in Translation/Interpretation English/German/French from Lyon University, France. She has 14 years experience in the translation industry and 12 years in international trade.