Women in Localization (W.L.) is the leading professional organization for women in the localization industry with thousands of members globally.

Its mission is to foster a global community that inspires professional equality in the localization industry and supports women through all phases of their careers. Started in the San Francisco Bay Area in 2008, W.L. has expanded its membership to include women across the globe, encouraging members to meet in other local geographies.

Many Chapter have been created recently and I decided to invite my fellow volunteers to talk about this adventure in Portuguese.

Thank you Marta Boer, Helena Sanhudo and Dulce Vaz.

I love doing episodes with people getting started in the Translation domain.

Their stories and examples can help many other people who are trying to enter the professional language world.

This time, I invited 4 ladies who have been in the industry for less than 2 years:

Irene Gonzalo Navarro

English - Catalan and Spanish translator, Sworn Translation EN-CA, and Marketing Translation. One of Irene's strongest areas is Outdoor sports.

Julia Ferch

English - German Translator, Creative Marketing, Web & App Localization, Subtitling & SEO Localization. Julia loves working with Vegan brands!

Sofia Milan

German - Italian Translator. Transcreation, Beauty & Cosmetics, Website, and IT. Sofia knows about beauty brands.

Marta Monteiro

English - Portuguese Translator. Translation and Language Services student (MA). Marta finished her internship and is getting into the language work groove!

Agata Szubstarska

Agata is the Managing Director - Europe at Summa Linguae and we have recently met in person for the first time in the Women in Localization event in Lisbon.

Getting to know Agata better has been an absolute pleasure and I really wanted to learn more about her background and role in her current company.

Madhu Sundaramurthy

Madhu is the Global HR Director & MD - APAC and we are meeting for the first time in this episode. Agata talked highly about Madhu we will all understand why after listening to her talking about the language industry in the most passionate way!

Summa Linguae Technologies

Summa Linguae is a language and technology service provider headquartered in Poland with 7 offices located across North America, Europe, and Asia.  They specialize in technology-enabled localization, managed services, and data solutions.  

With the intent on transforming the traditional approach to language, Summa Linguae is one of the industry's fastest-growing companies.

Their promise is to help global, content-rich companies with every multilingual data challenge.    To learn more about Summa Linguae Technologies, our journey, and the solutions we offer, visit: https://summalinguae.com/.