Student Translator-Interpreter Program breaks language barriers

Other recent projects similarly reflect TIP’s mission of providing equal access and promoting social justice. Students have served as interpreters and translators for Tompkins Community Action, a nonprofit that provides access to housing; for the Excluded Workers Fund, a fund for undocumented or partially documented New Yorkers; for the Global Strategic Litigation Council for Refugee Rights; and for domestic violence and homeless shelters, among many other projects.

For Chen, some of the most impactful work has been helping non-English speakers on campus. In collaboration with the Community Learning and Service Partnership (CLASP), TIP took on a semesterlong project of translating 10 different units of study materials into multiple languages for a highly technical food safety test required by all Cornell Dining employees.Read the full article originally published in the Cornell Chronicle.