Catherine Anderson, M.A.

Manager of Language and Cultural Services department · Jewish Vocational Service of Kansas City · company speakers →

Since 2003, Catherine Anderson, a founding commissioner for the Certification Commission of Healthcare Interpreters, has been the manager of the Language and Cultural Services department at Jewish Vocational Service (JVS) of Kansas City, Missouri where she supports an interpreter pool with language capacity in 35 languages. This program also provides Bridging the Gap™ interpreter training in its effort to deliver quality interpreter services and improve the health and well-being of the region’s non-English speaking residents. She offers cultural competency training in Kansas and Missouri and serves on a local health care advisory committee. She is also a member of the National Council on Interpreting in Health Care’s (NCIHC) Languages of Limited Diffusion workgroup. Previously, Catherine worked in Boston for 22 years as a teacher, advocate for immigrants’ rights and journalist. Her fourth book of poetry, published this year, Everyone I Love Immortal, weaves together themes of language and culture through the lives of working people.

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