María Angélica Ramírez Gutiérrez

María Angélica Ramírez Gutiérrez studied English language and literature, as well as a master’s degree in comparative literature at UNAM (National Autonomous University of Mexico). She also completed a diploma in translator training at the Colegio de México and a PhD in translation and interpretation at the University of Alicante. For over twenty years, she has worked in the translation field, specializing in dubbing, subtitling and voice-over of miniseries, movies and documentaries broadcasted on Mexican television and pay television in Latin America. She has also translated books published by Éditions Larousse and Simon & Schuster. She currently works as a professor at Universidad Intercontinental, and she translates research articles and subtitles for educational, cultural and marketing videos for several universities and companies. She is a member of the Mexican Translators Association (OMT), the Mexican Association of Literary Translators (AMETLI) and a founding member of Proyecto Cenzontle.

Rafael Segovia Albán

As well as his extensive background in translation, Rafael Segovia has considerable experience in education, the arts, social activism and all areas of culture, including writing and stage management as fields of personal development. He also has experience with television production, magazine edition, literary and scientific translation, critical journalism (theatre, visual arts, literature) and the organization of civic groups for the defense of cultural rights. In this last area, he has worked as the General Coordinator of the Citizen Cultural Counsel of Morelos, and as a member of the board of directors of the International Network for Cultural Diversity. He has been a longstanding educator, specializing in Latin American, French and English literature,  languages (French, Spanish and English), translation and interpretation, intellectual history, the theory and history of communication, cinema and audiovisual studies, photography, performing arts and theatre production.

Gabriela Escarrá

Gabriela Escarrá is a certified translator (Universidad Nacional de La Plata - UNLP), English language and literature professor (Universidad Nacional de La Plata - UNLP), and editor and proofreader, specializing in marketing, corporate communication and ISO standards. She has given talks at different conferences and institutions in the United States, Europe and Latin America. She has also been a university professor of Technical Translation I and II at the Faculty of Economic Sciences of the Universidad Católica de La Plata (UCALP).  She is a translator and trainer for several projects of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), multinational companies, governmental organizations and professional associations. Gabriela also has two TAUS certifications in postediting and transcreation.

Dolores R. Guiñazú

Dolores R. Guiñazú is a certified translator (sworn legal translator and interpreter) and a graduate of Universidad del Salvador, Argentina. She also has a diploma in the International Proofreading of Texts (Fundación Litterae & Fundeu) with an MBA in marketing at the Universidad del Salvador and the University of Albany in New York, USA. She has two TAUS certifications in postediting and transcreation. Dolores works for agencies and direct clients translating marketing material, manuals, books, quality processes, ISO standards and providing localization services. She has given talks at different conferences and institutions in the United States, Europe and Latin America. She has two podcasts, Attitudeable and Attitudeable in Spanish to raise awareness around the importance of good communication.

Eunice Yannin Huerta Arroyo

She graduated with a degree in translation at Universidad Autónoma de Baja California and is currently a student in the Institutional Master’s Program in Philosophy of Culture run by the Faculty of Philosophy. She is the founder of Trujimané, a translation and interpretation services project, and a space for creation, transformation and resistance that advocates the use of inclusive and non-binary language, focused on social sciences, humanities and diversity topics. Her research and interest focuses on topics such as philosophical translation, the philosophy of translation, translation in humanities, academic translation, gender and translation, and gender and language.

Gabriela Ortiz

Gabriela Ortiz was born in Buenos Aires and is a translator certified by the American Translators Association (English > Spanish). She has 20 years of experience as a freelance translator (English, German and Latin > Spanish). Her experience lies in the areas of medicine, marketing and audiovisual and accessibility translation. She was a keynote speaker at the Spanish Division of the American Translators Association in Denver 2010, and was responsible for the closing session of the San Jerónimo Conference held by the Mexican Translators Association in 2012. She also presented at Languages and The Media (Berlin, 2016), Media 4 All (Stockholm, 2019), and the ATA conference in Palm Springs in 2019.

Ixchel Martínez Villafuerte

She graduated with a degree in translation at the Instituto Superior de Intérpretes y Traductores (ISIT) in Mexico City and has a postgraduate degree in the didactics of translation at the University of Buenos Aires (UBA), Argentina. She has also undertaken extensive ongoing training in copyediting and legal translation. She is a sworn translator appointed by the Federal Judiciary Council of Mexico and is an English-Spanish translator certified by the American Translators Association (ATA).

She is currently studying translation specializations in gastronomy, oenology (wine studies) and tourism translation at the AulaSic virtual campus.

She has more than 16 years of experience as a legal, financial and engineering translator, as well as a proofreader and companion interpreter at international companies, like Ch2M Hill, McCann Worldgroup, Vendor and Pacific Architects and Engineers. She also collaborates as a freelance translator, localization professional and proofreader with different translation agencies, such as Linguaserve, BeatBabel and Localsoft, among others.

María Ester Capurro

María Ester Capurro is a certified English translator, graduate of Universidad Católica and studied a diploma in International Proofreading of Spanish Language Texts at the Fundación Litterae. She is a founding member and member of the board of directors of the Casa del Corrector of Fundación Litterae. She worked as an in-house translator for 15 years for different entities and companies. For more than 20 years, she has worked as a freelance translator and proofreader for diverse organizations, institutions, companies and publishing houses. She teaches Translation I and Writing, Editing and Proofreading as part of the translation degree at Universidad de Museo Social.  She is a member of the Plain Language Network of Argentina. She formed part of the research team to the Diccionario de usos correctos del español (Dictionary of the Correct Uses of Spanish) by Alicia María Zorrilla, published in 2018. She is the Argentine correspondent for the magazine Unión de Correctores de España. She has presented at international and national conferences and events and given workshops, conferences, talks and courses related to the proofreading and copyediting of translations and the correct use of the Spanish language in different national and international institutions.

Other activities involving the participant:

Workshop 5: Analyzing and correcting different types of texts in a translator's work

Irene Selser

Irene Selser is a translator, journalist, editor and writer, and a member of the Mexican Association of Literary Translators (AMETLI). Her work includes the translation of Sapiens frente a Sapiens. La espléndida y trágica historia de la humanidad by Pascal Picq (Siglo XXI Editores, Mexico, 2021); the anthology Mujeres que cuentan secretos (Ed. Narratio, Cuentos, Mexico, 2021); Sonnet en yx - Stéphane Mallarmé. Traducción y ensayo (Ed. El Tucán de Virginia, Mexico, 2019); Patria de náufragos (Poetry, Universidad Externado de Colombia, Bogotá 2019); and Contra el Estado de Israel. Historia de la oposición judía al sionismo by Yakov Rabkin (Planeta, Buenos Aires, 2018, 394 pp.).