Short Bio
Judy Jenner is a Spanish and German business and legal translator and a federally certified Spanish court interpreter as well as conference interpreter. She has an MBA in marketing and a master’s degree in conference interpreting and runs her boutique translation and interpreting business, Twin Translations, with her twin sister Dagmar. She was born in Austria and grew up in Mexico City. She is a former in-house translation department manager. She writes the blog Translation Times and the "Entrepreneurial Linguist" column for The ATA Chronicle, serves as one of the ATA spokespersons, and teaches interpretation at the University of California-San Diego and at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. She is the co-author of The Entrepreneurial Linguist: The Business-School Approach to Freelance Translation. She’s a frequent speaker at T&I conferences around the world, fierce defender of our profession, and passionate about educating the next generation of linguists.