The Power of Language to Save Lives (Poster)
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2016-04-19
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Rebecca Petras is Deputy Director of Translators
without Borders.
In 2013 she developed TWB’s Words of Relief, the
first-ever global crisis translation network. Words of
Relief was piloted in Kenya and has subsequently
been deployed in West Africa, Burundi, Nepal, and
Europe for the refugee crisis. Prior to TWB, Rebecca
handled marketing and public relations for a number
of localization and technology providers; she also
served as vice president at Ketchum International,
senior account manager at Dan Pinger Public
Relations and professional writer at Andersen
Consulting. She holds a master’s in journalism from
Columbia University in the City of New York and a
bachelor’s degree from the University of Michigan.
Rebecca currently resides in Moscow, Russia.
Date, time and place of event : Tuesday April 19, 2016, CAPA Symposium
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Posters, Translating and interpreting, CAPA Symposium