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About SLS/Faculty

Joyce Garcia

Joyce was certified by the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts in 1989. She has a bachelor's and a master's degree in Spanish Literature from the University of Arizona. She was a participant in the first University of Arizona Summer Institute of Court Interpretation in 1983 and has worked as an interpreter and translator since 1985. Joyce has taught for the Agnese Haury Institute for Court Interpretation from 1992 to the present, and has served on the Advisory Board for the Translation Studies Certificate for Pima Community College and has been faculty for that program since it began in 1997. She has also held office in the Arizona Court Interpreters Association (ACIA)_and has been a presenter for the ACIA and the National Association for Judicial Interpreters and Translators (NAJIT).

Cristina Helmerichs
Cristina is federally certified by the Administrative Office of the United States Courts, is a graduate of and former faculty member at the University of Arizona's Agnese Haury Institute for Court Interpretation, and is the current President of the National Association of Judicial Interpreters and Translators (NAJIT). She has worked as a freelance interpreter in numerous court, conference, and other settings
throughout Texas and elsewhere and has trained and presented at multiple seminars and conferences.

Donna Whitman
Donna graduated from the University of Arizona with a bachelor's degree in Spanish and her interpreting career spans more than 28 years. She is certified by the Administrative Office of the United States Courts and was an examiner for the Federal Court Interpreter Certification Examination. She has both attended and is now a faculty member at the University of Arizona's Agnese Haury Institute for Court Interpretation and has extensive experience in the training of judges and interpreters at the state and federal level. She serves as a faculty member of the Translation Studies Program at Pima Community College and is presently a member of the Arizona Supreme Court Commission for Court Interpreter Certification and Funding.

Miriam Flores
Miriam holds interpreter certifications from the states of California, Nevada, and the Administrative Office of the United States Courts. Since 1996 she has been a staff interpreter for the North Las Vegas Municipal Court in Nevada and prior to that interpreted for the Los Angeles Superior Court. She is a graduate of the University of Arizona's Agnese Haury Institute for Court Interpretation and has been an Adjunct Instructor of interpretation and translation courses for the University of Las Vegas,
Nevada, and is currently a Spanish Instructor for the Community College of Southern Nevada. Miriam has also developed and taught multiple interpreter training programs throughout Nevada and California.

Kathleen O'Hanlon
Kathleen, a federally-certified court interpreter with master's degrees in
journalism and Spanish, has nearly 20 years' experience teaching University-level English and/or Spanish. Students and fellow faculty members have consistently rated her instruction excellent to outstanding. She is an alumna of the Agnese Haury Summer Institute for Court Interpretation, and is currently providing interpreting services at several settings including: U.S. district courts; pre-trial-services; attorney-client communications; hearings, trials and probation interviews; the U.S. Attorney's Office; U.S. Immigration Court; business meetings and conferences.